macht leer

/\ˌmaxt ˈleːɐ̯\/ verb

The verdict

“macht leer” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
10
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif présent de leermachen.

Key facts for macht leer
PropertyValue
Headwordmacht leer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ˌmaxt ˈleːɐ̯\
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “macht leer” sits in French frequency

macht leer falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for macht leer is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˌmaxt ˈleːɐ̯\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for macht leer in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 macht leer, spelled M-A-C-H-T- -L-E-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif présent de leermachen.
  2. 2
    Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif dans une proposition principale de leermachen.
  3. 3
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif dans une proposition principale de leermachen.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "macht leer"?
"macht leer" is spelled M-A-C-H-T- -L-E-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ˌmaxt ˈleːɐ̯\.
What does "macht leer" mean?
As a verb, "macht leer" means: Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif présent de leermachen.
How do you pronounce "macht leer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "macht leer" is \ˌmaxt ˈleːɐ̯\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "macht leer" come from?
"macht leer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “macht leer”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is M-A-C-H-T- -L-E-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ˌmaxt ˈleːɐ̯\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.