macron

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for macron is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.kʁɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,141 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Diacritique de l’alphabet latin, grec ou cyrillique, qui prend la forme d’une barre horizontale (‹ ◌̄ ›) que l’on place au-dessus d’une lettre pour indiquer une abbréviation, une qualité phonétique...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for macron, with forms such as "amcron", "maccron", and "macorn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Maroc", "micro", "marin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 macron, spelled M-A-C-R-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.