maquerelle
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#99,327
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
maquerelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Femme se livrant au proxénétisme, prostituant d’autres femmes et recevant tout ou partie de l’argent obtenu de cette activité. Pronounced \ma.kʁɛl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maquerelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.kʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #99,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maquerelle is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.kʁɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #99,327 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for maquerelle 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 maquerelle, spelled M-A-Q-U-E-R-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Femme se livrant au proxénétisme, prostituant d’autres femmes et recevant tout ou partie de l’argent obtenu de cette activité.
- 2Tenancière d’une maison close, d’un établissement de prostitution. On dit aussi dans ce sens mère maquerelle.
- 3Commère, entremetteuse. Personne qui s’immisce dans la vie privée des autres, regarde sans le faire voir et colporte les ragots.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #99,327 in French
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