makhzen
The verdict
“makhzen” is uncommon French (frequency #74,973 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,973
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gouvernement chérifien.
Corpus desk
Index FR-makhzen · makhzen · French
makhzen · rank #74,973 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,973
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maint
Nearest frequency peer: maint (-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 « makhzen »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Madec
Madec
25,032 corpus weight
- maigrichon
maigrichon
25,030 corpus weight
- maint
maint
25,029 corpus weight
- makhzen
makhzen
25,028 corpus weight
- Malabo
Malabo
25,027 corpus weight
- malmène
malmène
25,025 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « makhzen » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | makhzen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #74,973 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « makhzen » en français
Rare enough to double-check
makhzen is uncommon French at frequency #74,973 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gouvernement chérifien.".
Zero misspellings are on record for makhzen in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 makhzen, spelled M-A-K-H-Z-E-N.
Definition
- 1Gouvernement chérifien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how makhzen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout l’édifice du makhzen reposait sur quatre piliers représentés par les tribus du guich : Cheraga, Oudaya, Bouakher et Cherarda.
— Ce sont là les pluriels makhzen, soumis et bien obéissants ; il y a bien en dehors d’eux quelques pluriels dissidents, partis en siba, depuis longtemps ; vous les apprendrez bien rapidement par l’usage ; leur caractère dissident attirera sur eux votre attention.
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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