Maquet

name

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The verdict

“Maquet” is uncommon French (frequency #90,915 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#90,915
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-maquet · Maquet · French

Maquet · rank #90,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #90,915
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH manly

Nearest frequency peer: manly (-2 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 « Maquet »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Maquet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Maquet
PropertyValue
HeadwordMaquet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#90,915
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Maquet » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Maquettombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « manly » (#90,913), « mangerons » (#90,912), « Marylène » (#90,918). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « Maquet » est au #90,915. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Maquet is uncommon French at frequency #90,915 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for Maquet in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Maquet, spelled M-A-Q-U-E-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Maquet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Et puis Dumas et son complice d’écriture Auguste Maquet n’hésitaient pas à manipuler l’Histoire pour servir leur intrigue.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Maquet"?
"Maquet" is spelled M-A-Q-U-E-T.
What does "Maquet" mean?
As a proper noun, "Maquet" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Maquet" come from?
"Maquet" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Maquet", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Manama#90,911maloya#90,910matous#90,922mellah#90,928

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list