Mackenzie
The verdict
“Mackenzie” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,510. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,510
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fleuve canadien, qui prend sa source dans le Grand lac des Esclaves et s’écoule vers la mer de Beaufort dans l’océan Arctique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mackenzie · Mackenzie · French
Mackenzie · rank #27,510 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #27,510
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH louve
Nearest frequency peer: louve (-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 « Mackenzie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lisser
lisser
72,494 corpus weight
- loc
loc
72,493 corpus weight
- louve
louve
72,492 corpus weight
- Mackenzie
Mackenzie
72,491 corpus weight
- Magny
Magny
72,490 corpus weight
- maillage
maillage
72,489 corpus weight
What this shows « Mackenzie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Mackenzie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Mackenzie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Mackenzie, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #27,510 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fleuve canadien, qui prend sa source dans le Grand lac des Esclaves et s’écoule vers la mer de Beaufort dans l’océan Arctique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Mackenzie, with forms such as "amckenzie", "macckenzie", and "maceknzie". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "McKenzie", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Mackenzie, spelled M-A-C-K-E-N-Z-I-E.
Definition
- 1Fleuve canadien, qui prend sa source dans le Grand lac des Esclaves et s’écoule vers la mer de Beaufort dans l’océan Arctique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Mackenzie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis le jour où tout là-bas, sur les bords du Mackenzie, il avait été, par des marchands qui trafiquaient dans ces parages, acheté aux Indiens et, pour la première fois, attelé aux harnais d’un traîneau, il avait souvent, en un désir ardent, songé à cette liberté vers laquelle le repoussait le sang du loup qui était en lui. — (James Oliver Curwood, Kaza…
Le lac Sahtu se déverse dans le fleuve Dehcho, qui signifie « grand fleuve » en langue déné, tout comme le Mississipi signifie « grand fleuve » en langue algonquienne. Malheureusement, les toponymes dénés furent ignorés par les Canadiens anglais : ne cherchez pas le Deh Cho, il s'appelle le fleuve Mackenzie.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amckenzie
- macckenzie
- maceknzie
- mackenize
- mackennzie
- mackenzei
- mackenzzie
- mackeznie
- mackkenzie
- macknezie
- makcenzie
- mcakenzie
- mmackenzie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Mackenzie - 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.
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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 (13 here; floor ≥5).