mâchoire
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,002
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
mâchoire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Chacune des deux parties osseuses de la bouche dans lesquelles les dents sont enchâssées. Pronounced \mɑ.ʃwaʁ\. Often confused with Magloire and mâchoires.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mâchoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑ.ʃwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,002 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mâchoire is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑ.ʃwaʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,002 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for mâchoire, with forms such as "machoire", "mcâhoire", and "mmâchoire". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Magloire", "mâchoires", "machine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mâchoire, spelled M-Â-C-H-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chacune des deux parties osseuses de la bouche dans lesquelles les dents sont enchâssées.
- 2Deux pièces qui s’éloignent et se rapprochent pour assujettir un objet, pour le serrer, le tenir ferme et fixe, ou pour en ralentir le mouvement.
- 3Deux pièces qui s’éloignent et se rapprochent pour assujettir un objet, pour le serrer, le tenir ferme et fixe, ou pour en ralentir le mouvement.
- 4Deux pièces qui s’éloignent et se rapprochent pour assujettir un objet, pour le serrer, le tenir ferme et fixe, ou pour en ralentir le mouvement.
- 5Deux pièces qui s’éloignent et se rapprochent pour assujettir un objet, pour le serrer, le tenir ferme et fixe, ou pour en ralentir le mouvement.
- 6Maque.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: machoire,mcâhoire,mmâchoire,mâcchoire,mâchhoire,mâchiore,mâchoier,mâchoirre,mâchorie,mâcohire,mâhcoire,âmchoire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mâchoire
Misspelling Variants of "mâchoire"
Frequency rank: #12,002 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: