macreuse noire
The verdict
“macreuse noire” 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, d'Eurasie, dont le mâle est entièrement noir, avec une tache jaune orangé sur le bec, et dont la femelle et les jeunes sont brun...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macreuse noire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.kʁøz nwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “macreuse noire” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for macreuse noire is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.kʁøz nwaʁ\. 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, d'Eurasie, dont le mâle est entièrement noir, avec une tache jaune orangé sur le bec, et dont la femelle et les jeunes sont brun...".
No misspelling variants are generated for macreuse noire 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 noire, spelled M-A-C-R-E-U-S-E- -N-O-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’oiseau palmipède plongeur marin de la famille des anatidés, d'Eurasie, dont le mâle est entièrement noir, avec une tache jaune orangé sur le bec, et dont la femelle et les jeunes sont brun clair.
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Using “macreuse noire”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-C-R-E-U-S-E- -N-O-I-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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