Mack
The verdict
“Mack” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,725. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,725
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mack · Mack · French
Mack · rank #25,725 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,725
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH louée
Nearest frequency peer: louée (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Mack”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- louange
louange
74,279 corpus weight
- louent
louent
74,278 corpus weight
- louée
louée
74,277 corpus weight
- Mack
Mack
74,276 corpus weight
- mani
mani
74,275 corpus weight
- manquements
manquements
74,274 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Mack” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mack |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #25,725 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Mack” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Mack, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #25,725 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mack, with forms such as "amck", "macck", and "mackk". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MC", "MK", "mal", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Mack, spelled M-A-C-K.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Mack appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Probablement sans Iliana Rupert (épaule), qui ne s’est pas entraînée avec le groupe hier, et face à une équipe qui repose essentiellement sur trois joueuses — dont l’intérieure naturalisée Natasha Mack (1,93 m, 25 ans) qui posera problème dans la raquette —, la France aura besoin de se trouver des leaders de terrain.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amck
- macck
- mackk
- makc
- mcak
- mmack
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mack - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Mack", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
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.