matchmaking
\matʃ.mɛ(j).kiŋ\
The verdict
“matchmaking” is uncommon French (frequency #89,906 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,906
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mise en relation de deux individus par affinités, le plus souvent par un site de rencontres sur Internet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-matchmaking · matchmaking · French
matchmaking · rank #89,906 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,906
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH matam
Nearest frequency peer: matam (-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 « matchmaking »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- martèlement
martèlement
10,098 corpus weight
- Masahiro
Masahiro
10,097 corpus weight
- matam
matam
10,096 corpus weight
- matchmaking
matchmaking
10,095 corpus weight
- Mattias
Mattias
10,093 corpus weight
- maudissent
maudissent
10,092 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « matchmaking » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | matchmaking |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \matʃ.mɛ(j).kiŋ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #89,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « matchmaking » en français
Rare enough to double-check
matchmaking is uncommon French at frequency #89,906 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \matʃ.mɛ(j).kiŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for matchmaking in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is matchmaking, spelled M-A-T-C-H-M-A-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Mise en relation de deux individus par affinités, le plus souvent par un site de rencontres sur Internet.
- 2Processus algorithmique qui permet d’associer des joueurs, en fonction de critères tels que leur niveau, pour les faire s’affronter ou pour qu’ils collaborent en équipe dans un jeu vidéo en ligne multijoueur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how matchmaking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une fois les candidatures reçues, on a essayé de faire un “matchmaking” [mise en relation de deux individus par affinités].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).