machten leer
The verdict
“machten 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Première personne du pluriel du prétérit de l’indicatif dans une proposition principale de leermachen.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | machten leer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˌmaxtn̩ ˈleːɐ̯\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “machten leer” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for machten leer is 12 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˌmaxtn̩ ˈleːɐ̯\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for machten 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 machten leer, spelled M-A-C-H-T-E-N- -L-E-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du prétérit de l’indicatif dans une proposition principale de leermachen.
- 2Première personne du pluriel du subjonctif II dans une proposition principale de leermachen.
- 3Troisième personne du pluriel du prétérit de l’indicatif dans une proposition principale de leermachen.
- 4Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif II dans une proposition principale de leermachen.
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Using “machten leer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-C-H-T-E-N- -L-E-E-R — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ˌmaxtn̩ ˈleːɐ̯\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Nearby French words
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