McMahon
\mak.ma.ɔ̃\
The verdict
“McMahon” is uncommon French (frequency #52,820 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,820
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille irlandais
Corpus desk
Index FR-mcmahon · McMahon · French
McMahon · rank #52,820 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,820
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mays
Nearest frequency peer: Mays (-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 « McMahon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- marronniers
marronniers
47,185 corpus weight
- maréchaussée
maréchaussée
47,183 corpus weight
- Mays
Mays
47,182 corpus weight
- McMahon
McMahon
47,181 corpus weight
- mellon
mellon
47,180 corpus weight
- menhirs
menhirs
47,179 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « McMahon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | McMahon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \mak.ma.ɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « McMahon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
McMahon is uncommon French at frequency #52,820 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \mak.ma.ɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille irlandais".
No generated misspelling entries exist for McMahon in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is McMahon, spelled M-C-M-A-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille irlandais
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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