Marcin
[ˈmart͡ɕin]
The verdict
“Marcin” is uncommon German (frequency #88,006 among 44,424 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,006
- frequency rank, German
- 44,424
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - männlicher Vorname; Martin
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marcin |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈmart͡ɕin] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,006 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Marcin” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Marcin is uncommon German at frequency #88,006 among 44,424 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈmart͡ɕin]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "männlicher Vorname; Martin".
No misspelling variants are generated for Marcin in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Marcin, spelled M-A-R-C-I-N.
Definition
- 1männlicher Vorname; Martin
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Marcin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is M-A-R-C-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.