maracas
\ma.ʁa.kas\
The verdict
“maracas” is uncommon French (frequency #84,046 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,046
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récipient utilisé traditionnellement au Pérou pour y recueillir le baume du Pérou. On le fixe sous une incision faite dans l'arbre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maracas · maracas · French
maracas · rank #84,046 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,046
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mapuche
Nearest frequency peer: mapuche (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « maracas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- malvoyantes
malvoyantes
15,959 corpus weight
- mapuche
mapuche
15,956 corpus weight
- maracas
maracas
15,955 corpus weight
- marchèrent
marchèrent
15,954 corpus weight
- Marcillac
Marcillac
15,953 corpus weight
- massent
massent
15,951 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maracas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maracas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁa.kas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maracas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maracas is uncommon French at frequency #84,046 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʁa.kas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Récipient utilisé traditionnellement au Pérou pour y recueillir le baume du Pérou. On le fixe sous une incision faite dans l'arbre.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for maracas, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is maracas, spelled M-A-R-A-C-A-S.
Definition
- 1Récipient utilisé traditionnellement au Pérou pour y recueillir le baume du Pérou. On le fixe sous une incision faite dans l'arbre.
Synonyms
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.
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