machiste
\ma.tʃist\
The verdict
“machiste” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,024. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,024
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a tendance à discriminer négativement les femmes ; qui est adepte du machisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-machiste · machiste · French
machiste · rank #48,024 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,024
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH macaire
Nearest frequency peer: macaire (-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 « machiste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- luthérienne
luthérienne
51,981 corpus weight
- macaire
macaire
51,978 corpus weight
- machiste
machiste
51,977 corpus weight
- magister
magister
51,976 corpus weight
- Maintenon
Maintenon
51,975 corpus weight
- Majid
Majid
51,974 corpus weight
What this shows « machiste » 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 | machiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.tʃist\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « machiste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around machiste (IPA \ma.tʃist\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #48,024 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a tendance à discriminer négativement les femmes ; qui est adepte du machisme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for machiste, with forms such as "amchiste", "macchiste", and "machhiste". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "maoïste", "marxiste", "masochiste", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 machiste, spelled M-A-C-H-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a tendance à discriminer négativement les femmes ; qui est adepte du machisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how machiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bref, le sport est le triomphe du corps mâle, du corps « machiste » comme disent les militantes féministes.
Ils étaient dans la lignée de beaucoup de rappeurs et rappeuses qui véhiculaient des textes engagés. Parmi eux, il y avait la pionnière du rap féminin, Queen Latifah, qui créa une véritable révolution dans le monde machiste du hip-hop.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amchiste
- macchiste
- machhiste
- machiset
- machisste
- machistte
- machitse
- machsite
- macihste
- mahciste
- mcahiste
- mmachiste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of machiste - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "machiste", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).