maquette
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,434
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
maquette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Modèle réduit d’un ouvrage d’art, esquisse d’ensemble (d’un panneau décoratif, par exemple). Pronounced \ma.kɛt\. Often confused with muette and mouette.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maquette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.kɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for maquette is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.kɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,434 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for maquette, with forms such as "amquette", "maqeutte", and "maqquette". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "muette", "mouette", "moquette", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 maquette, spelled M-A-Q-U-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Modèle réduit d’un ouvrage d’art, esquisse d’ensemble (d’un panneau décoratif, par exemple).
- 2Projet permettant de donner l’aperçu le plus juste de ce que sera la réalisation, destiné à permettre le montage des pages (ou des écrans et dialogues, dans le cas d’un logiciel).
- 3Réalisation sous forme de montage expérimental d’un circuit électronique destiné à l’intégration.
- 4Projet présentant l’agencement des images qui permettront de réaliser une scène d’animation.
- 5Morceau de métal en cours d'élaboration dans une forge.
- 6Mise en page des différents éléments — textes, images — constituant un document écrit — affiche, journal, magazine, livre.
- 7Prototype d’une carte ou d’une série de cartes, présenté graphiquement sous son aspect définitif.
- 8Représentation en trois dimensions, à très grande échelle, d’un site géographique ou d’un ensemble architectural.
- 9Modèle réduit d'un objet reproduit à l'échelle.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amquette,maqeutte,maqquette,maquete,maquetet,maqutete,mauqette,mmaquette,mqauette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for maquette
Misspelling Variants of "maquette"
Frequency rank: #15,434 in French
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