McEnroe
The verdict
“McEnroe” is uncommon French (frequency #70,015 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,015
- 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-mcenroe · McEnroe · French
McEnroe · rank #70,015 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,015
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH menuiseries
Nearest frequency peer: menuiseries (+2 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 « McEnroe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mashup
mashup
29,989 corpus weight
- McEnroe
McEnroe
29,986 corpus weight
- menuiseries
menuiseries
29,984 corpus weight
- Mersch
Mersch
29,983 corpus weight
- mesh
mesh
29,982 corpus weight
- mesurons
mesurons
29,981 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « McEnroe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | McEnroe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « McEnroe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
McEnroe is uncommon French at frequency #70,015 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for McEnroe in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is McEnroe, spelled M-C-E-N-R-O-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how McEnroe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Menée 8-4, l’équipe Monde, entraînée par John McEnroe, a remporté les trois derniers matchs, portée notamment par les pépites américaine Frances Tiafoe et canadienne Félix Auger-Aliassime.
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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