macis
French, noun/ma.si/
macis is spelled M-A-C-I-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 28 million words in written French, the 168,321st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Macis is a French masculine noun meaning “mace (spice)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Écorce intérieure, arille, de la noix de muscade”.
What does macis mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemace (spice)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Écorce intérieure, arille, de la noix de muscade.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce macis?
- /ma.si/
- \ma.si\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to macis
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is macis in French?
macis appears about once in every 28 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).