maquereau
\ma.kʁo\
The verdict
“maquereau” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,366. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,366
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des espèces de poissons osseux marins surtout du genre Scomber, poissons effilés aux rayures caractéristiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maquereau · maquereau · French
maquereau · rank #40,366 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #40,366
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mamies
Nearest frequency peer: mamies (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « maquereau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- malabar
malabar
59,638 corpus weight
- maliennes
maliennes
59,637 corpus weight
- mamies
mamies
59,636 corpus weight
- maquereau
maquereau
59,635 corpus weight
- margarine
margarine
59,634 corpus weight
- Marigny
Marigny
59,633 corpus weight
What this shows « maquereau » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maquereau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.kʁo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #40,366 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maquereau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around maquereau (IPA \ma.kʁo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,366 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for maquereau, with forms such as "amquereau", "maqeureau", and "maqquereau". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "macros", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is maquereau, spelled M-A-Q-U-E-R-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Une des espèces de poissons osseux marins surtout du genre Scomber, poissons effilés aux rayures caractéristiques.
- 2Synonyme de maquereau commun (poisson).
- 3Broche métallique, plus grosse qu’une sardine, servant à fixer une tente de camping au sol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maquereau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les poissons qu'on y pêche sont d'un goût excellent; ceux qu'on estime le plus et qu'on rencontre le plus fréquemment, sont : le rouget, le maquereau, le loup, la sole, deux espèces de sardines enfin et sur-tout le mulet (vulgairement muge), dont nos pêcheurs distinguent aussi deux variétés.
Maquereaux, bonites, thazards, wahoos et thons sont tous membres de la famille des scombridés.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amquereau
- maqeureau
- maqquereau
- maqueerau
- maqueraeu
- maquereua
- maquerreau
- maqureeau
- mauqereau
- mmaquereau
- mqauereau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maquereau - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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