macchabées

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for macchabées is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ka.be\. Corpus data places it at rank #84,038 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de macchabée.".

No misspelling variants are generated for macchabées in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is macchabées, spelled M-A-C-C-H-A-B-É-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.