Makoto
The verdict
“Makoto” is uncommon French (frequency #50,344 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,344
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin japonais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-makoto · Makoto · French
Makoto · rank #50,344 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,344
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malia
Nearest frequency peer: malia (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Makoto”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- macaque
macaque
49,660 corpus weight
- magistrate
magistrate
49,659 corpus weight
- Makoto
Makoto
49,657 corpus weight
- malia
malia
49,656 corpus weight
- mandala
mandala
49,655 corpus weight
- manoirs
manoirs
49,654 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Makoto” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Makoto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,344 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “Makoto” se place dans la fréquence du français
Rare enough to double-check
Makoto is uncommon French at frequency #50,344 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin japonais.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Makoto in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Makoto, spelled M-A-K-O-T-O.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin japonais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Makoto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais comment fait Makoto Shinkai, réalisateur de Your Name et Les Enfants du temps, pour se renouveler à chaque film ?
Makoto Wada, directeur artistique du magazine Monthly CoroCoro Comic, confirme : « De nombreux auteurs [japonais] rêvent d’aller à Angoulême pour découvrir d’autres façons de travailler. Les auteurs de mangas ne fonctionnent pas du tout comme les auteurs européens. L’industrie n’est pas la même. »
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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