Macintosh
\ma.kin.tɔʃ\
The verdict
“Macintosh” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,538. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,538
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ordinateur personnel fabriqué et commercialisé par la société américaine Apple.
Corpus desk
Index FR-macintosh · Macintosh · French
Macintosh · rank #43,538 · 14 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,538
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Lyne
Nearest frequency peer: Lyne (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Macintosh »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- luminaires
luminaires
56,466 corpus weight
- Lyne
Lyne
56,464 corpus weight
- Macintosh
Macintosh
56,463 corpus weight
- Macédoniens
Macédoniens
56,462 corpus weight
- maigri
maigri
56,461 corpus weight
- malfaiteur
malfaiteur
56,460 corpus weight
What this shows « Macintosh » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Macintosh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.kin.tɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Macintosh »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Macintosh (IPA \ma.kin.tɔʃ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #43,538 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ordinateur personnel fabriqué et commercialisé par la société américaine Apple.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Macintosh, with forms such as "amcintosh", "maccintosh", and "macinntosh". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Macintosh, spelled M-A-C-I-N-T-O-S-H.
Definition
- 1Ordinateur personnel fabriqué et commercialisé par la société américaine Apple.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Macintosh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Notre premier objectif final était de produire un cédérom interactif de la Bible Porta qui puisse être éventuellement commercialisé et qui de ce fait doit être multiplate-forme même si le produit de base est établi sur Macintosh.
Macintosh domine l’univers de la communication et de la chaîne graphique, dois-je lui rappeler.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amcintosh
- maccintosh
- macinntosh
- macinotsh
- macintohs
- macintoshh
- macintossh
- macintsoh
- macinttosh
- macitnosh
- macnitosh
- maicntosh
- mcaintosh
- mmacintosh
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Macintosh - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).