makis
\ma.ki\
The verdict
“makis” is uncommon French (frequency #73,330 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,330
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Autre orthographe (ancienne) de maquis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-makis · makis · French
makis · rank #73,330 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,330
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malachite
Nearest frequency peer: malachite (+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 « makis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- magistrales
magistrales
26,674 corpus weight
- Maguelone
Maguelone
26,673 corpus weight
- makis
makis
26,671 corpus weight
- malachite
malachite
26,670 corpus weight
- Malartic
Malartic
26,669 corpus weight
- mancha
mancha
26,668 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « makis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | makis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ki\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,330 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « makis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
makis is uncommon French at frequency #73,330 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ki\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Autre orthographe (ancienne) de maquis.".
makis doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is makis, spelled M-A-K-I-S.
Definition
- 1Autre orthographe (ancienne) de maquis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how makis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous sortîmes des ruines par le côté opposé où nous étions entrés, Lucien marchant le premier; au moment où nous mettions le pied dans le makis, le faisan, se dénonçant lui-même, se mit à coqueter de nouveau.
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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