macumba
\ma.kum.ba\
The verdict
“macumba” is uncommon French (frequency #95,025 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,025
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble de rites syncrétiques cultuels afro-brésiliens, mêlant catholicisme, dulie, transe, possession, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-macumba · macumba · French
macumba · rank #95,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,025
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH macronien
Nearest frequency peer: macronien (-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 « macumba »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- macronien
macronien
4,977 corpus weight
- macumba
macumba
4,976 corpus weight
- mahjong
mahjong
4,975 corpus weight
- Maiduguri
Maiduguri
4,974 corpus weight
- maior
maior
4,973 corpus weight
- majority
majority
4,971 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « macumba » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | macumba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.kum.ba\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #95,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « macumba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
macumba is uncommon French at frequency #95,025 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.kum.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for macumba, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 macumba, spelled M-A-C-U-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de rites syncrétiques cultuels afro-brésiliens, mêlant catholicisme, dulie, transe, possession, etc.
- 2(France) Nom de discothèque
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how macumba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Candomblé à Bahia, umbanda ou macumba à Rio (le même rite, mais mêlé de spiritisme), pentecôtisme un peu partout : l’extension des religions « parallèles » a suivi le déclin de l’Église.
La "Vénus noire" se voit offrir des terres, qu’elle refuse, assiste à un rituel de macumba - le culte traditionnel afro-brésilien - et, déjà grand cœur, fait la manche parmi les clients d’un restaurant à la mode avant de donner l’argent recueilli à une miséreuse sur le trottoir.
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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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