machu
The verdict
“machu” is uncommon French (frequency #62,423 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,423
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vieux en parlant d’une personne, ou d’une chose personnifiée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-machu · machu · French
machu · rank #62,423 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,423
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Léonore
Nearest frequency peer: Léonore (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « machu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lèches
lèches
37,580 corpus weight
- Léonore
Léonore
37,579 corpus weight
- machu
machu
37,578 corpus weight
- macrophages
macrophages
37,577 corpus weight
- manda
manda
37,576 corpus weight
- mangouste
mangouste
37,575 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « machu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | machu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « machu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
machu is uncommon French at frequency #62,423 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vieux en parlant d’une personne, ou d’une chose personnifiée.".
Zero misspellings are on record for machu in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 machu, spelled M-A-C-H-U.
Definition
- 1Vieux en parlant d’une personne, ou d’une chose personnifiée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how machu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Machu Picchupi, Wayna Picchupi, puriku nanchiqpaq (trad: Au Machu Pichu, au Wayna Pichu, nous irons nous promener.)
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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