machu
The verdict
“machu” is uncommon French (frequency #62,423 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,423
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Vieux en parlant d’une personne, ou d’une chose personnifiée.
| 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) |
Where “machu” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
machu is uncommon French at frequency #62,423 among 202,672 “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.
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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Using “machu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-C-H-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.