maquereau commun

/\ma.kʁo kɔ.mœ̃\/ noun

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Language

French

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maquereau commun is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de poisson osseux marin scombridé de haute mer de la plupart des mers, dont les écailles sont très brillantes et très colorées, au dos bleu-vert, zébré de raies noires, apprécié pour sa chai... Pronounced \ma.kʁo kɔ.mœ̃\.

Key facts for maquereau commun
PropertyValue
Headwordmaquereau commun
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.kʁo kɔ.mœ̃\
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

maquereau commun is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for maquereau commun is 16 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.kʁo kɔ.mœ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Espèce de poisson osseux marin scombridé de haute mer de la plupart des mers, dont les écailles sont très brillantes et très colorées, au dos bleu-vert, zébré de raies noires, apprécié pour sa chai...".

No misspelling variants are generated for maquereau commun in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is maquereau commun, spelled M-A-Q-U-E-R-E-A-U- -C-O-M-M-U-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Espèce de poisson osseux marin scombridé de haute mer de la plupart des mers, dont les écailles sont très brillantes et très colorées, au dos bleu-vert, zébré de raies noires, apprécié pour sa chair et qui fait l’objet de pêche industrielle.

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How do you spell "maquereau commun"?
"maquereau commun" is spelled M-A-Q-U-E-R-E-A-U- -C-O-M-M-U-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.kʁo kɔ.mœ̃\.
What does "maquereau commun" mean?
As a noun, "maquereau commun" means: Espèce de poisson osseux marin scombridé de haute mer de la plupart des mers, dont les écailles sont très brillantes et très colorées, au dos bleu-vert, zébré de raies noires, apprécié pour sa chai...
How do you pronounce "maquereau commun"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maquereau commun" is \ma.kʁo kɔ.mœ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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