maquiller

\ma.ki.je\

/\ma.ki.je\/ verb

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The verdict

“maquiller” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,276. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,276
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Farder ; recouvrir de fard.

Corpus desk

Index FR-maquiller · maquiller · French

maquiller · rank #23,276 · 11 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,276
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH manquaient

Nearest frequency peer: manquaient (-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 « maquiller »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « maquiller » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

maquiller vs mouiller
78% similar
maquiller vs maquillé
78% similar
maquiller vs maquillée
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for maquiller
PropertyValue
Headwordmaquiller
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ma.ki.je\
Letters9
Frequency rank#23,276
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « maquiller »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).maquillerse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « manquaient » (#23,275), « masser » (#23,277), « matinal » (#23,278). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « maquiller » est au #23,276. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around maquiller (IPA \ma.ki.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,276 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 maquiller, with forms such as "amquiller", "maqiuller", and "maqquiller". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "mouiller", "maquillé", "maquillée", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is maquiller, spelled M-A-Q-U-I-L-L-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Farder ; recouvrir de fard.
  2. 2
    Travestir une chose, la faire passer pour ce qu’elle n’est pas pour l’occulter.
  3. 3
    Faire : le sens étymologique a été conservé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […] à la fin du mois, je pouvais apporter à ma femme, une centaine de francs, qu’elle dépensait aussitôt en pommades, en glycérine, en menus objets avec lesquels elle se parait, se maquillait, se pomponnait.
  2. Je la revois avec ses toilettes, pas très jolies mais tapageuses, ses beaux bras gras, sa croupe bien en chair, ses seins bien lourds de belle brune au calme de génisse, et ses cheveux si noirs, ses lèvres si rouges, sa peau si fraîche, ses yeux superbes toujours trop charbonnés, car elle savait très mal se maquiller.

Synonyms

makeuper

Antonyms

démaquiller

This word in other languages

make up(English)maquillar(Español)schminken(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amquiller
  • maqiuller
  • maqquiller
  • maquilelr
  • maquiler
  • maquillerr
  • maquillre
  • maquliler
  • mauqiller
  • mmaquiller
  • mqauiller

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of maquiller - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

amquiller2maqiuller2maqquiller1maquilelr2maquiler1maquillerr1maquillre2maquliler2
Edit distance from "maquiller"

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 "maquiller"?
"maquiller" is spelled M-A-Q-U-I-L-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ki.je\.
What does "maquiller" mean?
As a verb, "maquiller" means: Farder ; recouvrir de fard.
What words are commonly confused with "maquiller"?
"maquiller" is commonly confused with "mouiller", "maquillé", "maquillée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "maquiller"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maquiller" is \ma.ki.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "maquiller" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

littérale#23,268mouchoirs#23,286laborieux#23,265métissage#23,290

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

légiste11 variantsméfiant11 variantsNorbert11 variantspaieront11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list