macfarlane
\mak.faʁ.lan\
The verdict
“macfarlane” is uncommon French (frequency #69,214 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,214
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Manteau ample, sans manches, comportant une pèlerine sur les épaules, ou un grand collet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-macfarlane · macfarlane · French
macfarlane · rank #69,214 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,214
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Madani
Nearest frequency peer: Madani (+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 « macfarlane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lutta
lutta
30,790 corpus weight
- Létourneau
Létourneau
30,789 corpus weight
- macfarlane
macfarlane
30,787 corpus weight
- Madani
Madani
30,786 corpus weight
- maha
maha
30,785 corpus weight
- maio
maio
30,784 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « macfarlane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macfarlane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mak.faʁ.lan\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #69,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « macfarlane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
macfarlane is uncommon French at frequency #69,214 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mak.faʁ.lan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Manteau ample, sans manches, comportant une pèlerine sur les épaules, ou un grand collet.".
No misspelling variants are generated for macfarlane in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is macfarlane, spelled M-A-C-F-A-R-L-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Manteau ample, sans manches, comportant une pèlerine sur les épaules, ou un grand collet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how macfarlane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Allons, mesdames, en scène, cria un monsieur vêtu d’un chapeau noir et d’un mac-farlane bleu ; en place, l’orchestre commence !
Il demanda avec un peu d’humeur à Thérèse si elle voyait encore ce Choulette, qui lui faisait des visites en macfarlane, un cache-nez rouge par-dessus les oreilles.
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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