mace
The verdict
“mace” is uncommon French (frequency #52,179 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,179
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Soubassement d’un calvaire, dalle maçonnée servant d’arase aux calvaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mace · mace · French
mace · rank #52,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,179
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Maalouf
Nearest frequency peer: Maalouf (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « mace »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- luxation
luxation
47,825 corpus weight
- LV2
LV2
47,824 corpus weight
- Maalouf
Maalouf
47,823 corpus weight
- mace
mace
47,822 corpus weight
- madness
madness
47,820 corpus weight
- Magdebourg
Magdebourg
47,819 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mace » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mace » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mace is uncommon French at frequency #52,179 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Soubassement d’un calvaire, dalle maçonnée servant d’arase aux calvaires.".
mace has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mace, spelled M-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Soubassement d’un calvaire, dalle maçonnée servant d’arase aux calvaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est pourquoi le motif de villageois venant s’agenouiller au pied d’une mace – cette sorte de socle rectangulaire sur lequel est érigé le calvaire – est l’un des thèmes centraux de la peinture bretonne.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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