McConaughey
The verdict
“McConaughey” is uncommon French (frequency #65,305 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,305
- 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-mcconaughey · McConaughey · French
McConaughey · rank #65,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,305
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Maëlle
Nearest frequency peer: Maëlle (-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 « McConaughey »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Maul
Maul
34,700 corpus weight
- Mazzini
Mazzini
34,698 corpus weight
- Maëlle
Maëlle
34,697 corpus weight
- McConaughey
McConaughey
34,696 corpus weight
- MDPH
MDPH
34,693 corpus weight
- medio
medio
34,691 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « McConaughey » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | McConaughey |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #65,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « McConaughey » en français
Rare enough to double-check
McConaughey is uncommon French at frequency #65,305 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
McConaughey has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is McConaughey, spelled M-C-C-O-N-A-U-G-H-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how McConaughey appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’acteur Matthew McConaughey a révélé à « Let’s Take Off Camera » que, récemment, un avion qui le transportait a fait une « chute de 4 000 pieds (1219 m) », alors qu’il traversait une zone de turbulences.
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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