macreuse brune

/\ma.kʁøz bʁyn\/ noun

The verdict

“macreuse brune” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
14
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Espèce d'oiseau palmipède plongeur marin de la famille des anatidés, dont le mâle est complètement noir avec une petite tache blanche sous l'œil, et dont la femelle est brun noir avec des bordures ...

Key facts for macreuse brune
PropertyValue
Headwordmacreuse brune
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.kʁøz bʁyn\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “macreuse brune” sits in French frequency

macreuse brune falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for macreuse brune is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.kʁøz bʁyn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce d'oiseau palmipède plongeur marin de la famille des anatidés, dont le mâle est complètement noir avec une petite tache blanche sous l'œil, et dont la femelle est brun noir avec des bordures ...".

No misspelling variants are generated for macreuse brune in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 macreuse brune, spelled M-A-C-R-E-U-S-E- -B-R-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce d'oiseau palmipède plongeur marin de la famille des anatidés, dont le mâle est complètement noir avec une petite tache blanche sous l'œil, et dont la femelle est brun noir avec des bordures plus claires sur le dos et des liserés blancs sur la poitrine.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "macreuse brune"?
"macreuse brune" is spelled M-A-C-R-E-U-S-E- -B-R-U-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.kʁøz bʁyn\.
What does "macreuse brune" mean?
As a noun, "macreuse brune" means: Espèce d'oiseau palmipède plongeur marin de la famille des anatidés, dont le mâle est complètement noir avec une petite tache blanche sous l'œil, et dont la femelle est brun noir avec des bordures ...
How do you pronounce "macreuse brune"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "macreuse brune" is \ma.kʁøz bʁyn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "macreuse brune" come from?
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Using “macreuse brune”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is M-A-C-R-E-U-S-E- -B-R-U-N-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \ma.kʁøz bʁyn\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.