Maciel
The verdict
“Maciel” is uncommon French (frequency #97,126 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,126
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maciel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maciel · Maciel · French
Maciel · rank #97,126 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,126
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Machault
Nearest frequency peer: Machault (-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 « Maciel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Machault
Machault
2,876 corpus weight
- Maciel
Maciel
2,875 corpus weight
- maculée
maculée
2,874 corpus weight
- magoo
magoo
2,872 corpus weight
- Maignan
Maignan
2,871 corpus weight
- malina
malina
2,870 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Maciel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maciel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Maciel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Maciel is uncommon French at frequency #97,126 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Maciel.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Maciel in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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. The correct French form is Maciel, spelled M-A-C-I-E-L.
Definition
- 1Maciel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Maciel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marcial Maciel Degollado.
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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