macle
Letters
5 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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macle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Filet à large maille. Pronounced \makl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \makl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for macle is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \makl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for macle in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is macle, spelled M-A-C-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Filet à large maille.
- 2Meuble représentant une forme en losange évidé dans les armoiries. Certains auteurs rapprochent cette figure d’une maille de cuirasse, d’autres d’une boucle de baudrier ou ceinture sans ardillon. À rapprocher de cadril ou quadril, carré, carreau, carreau de jeu de cartes, fusée, losange et rustre.
- 3Figure obtenue par la juxtaposition de cristaux d'un même minéral avec une relation de symétrie.
- 4Synonyme de chiastolite.
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