faire le mariole
\fɛʁ lə ma.ʁjol\
The verdict
“faire le mariole” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire l’intéressant, faire des choses inhabituelles pour se donner en spectacle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-le-mariole · faire le mariole · French
faire le mariole · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire le mariole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ lə ma.ʁjol\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire le mariole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire le mariole is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ lə ma.ʁjol\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire l’intéressant, faire des choses inhabituelles pour se donner en spectacle.".
faire le mariole has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is faire le mariole, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -L-E- -M-A-R-I-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Faire l’intéressant, faire des choses inhabituelles pour se donner en spectacle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how faire le mariole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Là-bas, il y a des cordes, du Scotch, tout ce qu’il faut pour l’empêcher de bouger ou de crier s’il veut faire le mariole.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.