MacGregor
The verdict
“MacGregor” is uncommon French (frequency #75,869 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,869
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-macgregor · MacGregor · French
MacGregor · rank #75,869 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,869
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH macaronis
Nearest frequency peer: macaronis (-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 « MacGregor »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- léproserie
léproserie
24,135 corpus weight
- macaronis
macaronis
24,133 corpus weight
- MacGregor
MacGregor
24,132 corpus weight
- machinistes
machinistes
24,130 corpus weight
- Macht
Macht
24,129 corpus weight
- mailer
mailer
24,128 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « MacGregor » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | MacGregor |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #75,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « MacGregor » en français
Rare enough to double-check
MacGregor is uncommon French at frequency #75,869 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for MacGregor in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 MacGregor, spelled M-A-C-G-R-E-G-O-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how MacGregor appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Engie va accorder, en novembre, une remise de 100 euros en moyenne par client bénéficiaire du chèque énergie, a indiqué la directrice générale du groupe Catherine MacGregor, dans un entretien publié jeudi sur le site du Parisien.
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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