macula
\ma.ky.la\
The verdict
“macula” is uncommon French (frequency #91,903 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,903
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie de la rétine caractérisée par une concentration maximale de cônes, située au fond de l’œil, dans l’axe de la pupille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-macula · macula · French
macula · rank #91,903 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,903
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH lérida
Nearest frequency peer: lérida (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « macula »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Lycie
Lycie
8,101 corpus weight
- léguant
léguant
8,100 corpus weight
- lérida
lérida
8,099 corpus weight
- macula
macula
8,098 corpus weight
- Magdala
Magdala
8,096 corpus weight
- Maitreya
Maitreya
8,095 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « macula » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macula |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ky.la\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #91,903 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « macula » en français
Rare enough to double-check
macula is uncommon French at frequency #91,903 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ky.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie de la rétine caractérisée par une concentration maximale de cônes, située au fond de l’œil, dans l’axe de la pupille.".
macula has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is macula, spelled M-A-C-U-L-A.
Definition
- 1Partie de la rétine caractérisée par une concentration maximale de cônes, située au fond de l’œil, dans l’axe de la pupille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how macula appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entendu un ophtalmologue expliquer que « les animaux n’ont pas de macula. Ils ne possèdent donc qu’une vision globale. » Macula ou tache jaune. Petite dépression colorée en jaune de la rétine située au fond de l’œil, à l’extrémité postérieure de l’axe passant par le centre de la pupille et du cristallin. C’est la partie de la rétine la plus sensible aux i…
Les maculas – ces corps jaunes où se concentrent les cellules visuelles – m'observaient telles deux prunelles flamboyantes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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