Mahieu
\ma.jø\
The verdict
“Mahieu” is uncommon French (frequency #74,175 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,175
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mahieu · Mahieu · French
Mahieu · rank #74,175 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,175
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH madrigaux
Nearest frequency peer: madrigaux (-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 « Mahieu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- luthiers
luthiers
25,829 corpus weight
- légaliste
légaliste
25,828 corpus weight
- madrigaux
madrigaux
25,827 corpus weight
- Mahieu
Mahieu
25,826 corpus weight
- maintiendra…
maintiendrait
25,825 corpus weight
- majorés
majorés
25,823 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Mahieu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Mahieu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.jø\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #74,175 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Mahieu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Mahieu is uncommon French at frequency #74,175 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.jø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Mahieu, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Mahieu, spelled M-A-H-I-E-U.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).