machette
\ma.ʃɛt\
The verdict
“machette” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,639. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,639
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Long couteau muni d’une lame épaisse mesurant environ 40 centimètres de long et au manche court, servant généralement à se frayer un chemin dans les régions à végétation dense, à ouvrir des fruits ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-machette · machette · French
machette · rank #28,639 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,639
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH légat
Nearest frequency peer: légat (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « machette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lupus
lupus
71,365 corpus weight
- lyrics
lyrics
71,364 corpus weight
- légat
légat
71,363 corpus weight
- machette
machette
71,362 corpus weight
- machinerie
machinerie
71,361 corpus weight
- Majorque
Majorque
71,360 corpus weight
What this shows « machette » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | machette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « machette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around machette (IPA \ma.ʃɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,639 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Long couteau muni d’une lame épaisse mesurant environ 40 centimètres de long et au manche court, servant généralement à se frayer un chemin dans les régions à végétation dense, à ouvrir des fruits ...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for machette, with forms such as "amchette", "macchette", and "macehtte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "manette", "maquette", "mallette", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is machette, spelled M-A-C-H-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Long couteau muni d’une lame épaisse mesurant environ 40 centimètres de long et au manche court, servant généralement à se frayer un chemin dans les régions à végétation dense, à ouvrir des fruits à coque dure comme la noix de coco, à tailler les feuilles de palmier, etc., aussi utilisé comme arme blanche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how machette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avançons à la machette dans la bien nommée forêt impénétrable de Bwindi.
Ces voyages étaient de véritables aventures et il convenait chaque fois de se préparer au pire en emportant pelles, haches, machettes, crics, tire-forts et surtout les inévitables "caisse-popote", "lit-picot" et moustiquaires, sans oublier un ou deux manœuvres. — (Bernard Le Doux, O Tangani, Liv’éditions, 1994)
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amchette
- macchette
- macehtte
- machete
- machetet
- machhette
- machtete
- mahcette
- mcahette
- mmachette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of machette - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
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