McAvoy
The verdict
“McAvoy” is uncommon French (frequency #68,457 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,457
- 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-mcavoy · McAvoy · French
McAvoy · rank #68,457 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,457
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mayfield
Nearest frequency peer: Mayfield (-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 « McAvoy »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- masturbé
masturbé
31,547 corpus weight
- matcher
matcher
31,546 corpus weight
- Mayfield
Mayfield
31,545 corpus weight
- McAvoy
McAvoy
31,544 corpus weight
- menin
menin
31,541 corpus weight
- mentaliste
mentaliste
31,540 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « McAvoy » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | McAvoy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,457 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « McAvoy » en français
Rare enough to double-check
McAvoy is uncommon French at frequency #68,457 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for McAvoy, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is McAvoy, spelled M-C-A-V-O-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how McAvoy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En effet, ce n’est qu’à la toute dernière seconde de Split, porté par un James McAvoy aux multiples personnalités, que réapparaît un certain David Dunn (incarné par Bruce Willis dans Incassable), nous révélant ainsi une stupéfiante connexion entre les deux films, et par la même occasion l’élaboration d’un "mini-multivers".
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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