Machault
The verdict
“Machault” is uncommon French (frequency #97,125 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,125
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-machault · Machault · French
Machault · rank #97,125 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,125
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Maciel
Nearest frequency peer: Maciel (+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 « Machault »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lymphoïde
lymphoïde
2,881 corpus weight
- Machault
Machault
2,876 corpus weight
- Maciel
Maciel
2,875 corpus weight
- maculée
maculée
2,874 corpus weight
- magoo
magoo
2,872 corpus weight
- Maignan
Maignan
2,871 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Machault » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Machault |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,125 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Machault » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Machault is uncommon French at frequency #97,125 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Machault, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Machault, spelled M-A-C-H-A-U-L-T.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Ardennes.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Machault appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Germigny-les-Machault, d'après Longnon, faisait partie du doyenné d'Attigny ainsi que Machault et Cauroy du moins entre 1346 et 1541, […].
Ce jour-là, les premières unités de la 195ᵉ montèrent au front en passant par Machault et Cauroy où les Jägern s'enterrèrent. Au sud-est les 213 et 17ᵉ divisions allemandes tenaient le secteur de Saint-Étienne-à-Arnes. Les Allemands tenaient aussi la route St-Étienne - Cauroy.
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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