maraîcher
\ma.ʁɛ.ʃe\
The verdict
“maraîcher” is uncommon French (frequency #55,425 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,425
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui pratique le maraîchage, c’est-à-dire la culture des fruits et légumes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maraicher · maraîcher · French
maraîcher · rank #55,425 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,425
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maquisards
Nearest frequency peer: maquisards (-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 « maraîcher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manifesta
manifesta
44,579 corpus weight
- maoïstes
maoïstes
44,578 corpus weight
- maquisards
maquisards
44,577 corpus weight
- maraîcher
maraîcher
44,576 corpus weight
- margrave
margrave
44,575 corpus weight
- marinier
marinier
44,574 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maraîcher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maraîcher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁɛ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,425 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maraîcher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maraîcher is uncommon French at frequency #55,425 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʁɛ.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui pratique le maraîchage, c’est-à-dire la culture des fruits et légumes.".
Zero misspellings are on record for maraîcher in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is maraîcher, spelled M-A-R-A-Î-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui pratique le maraîchage, c’est-à-dire la culture des fruits et légumes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maraîcher appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A deux cents mètres environ de notre grotte, se trouvait la maisonnette d’un maraîcher.
Les Fouque étaient les plus riches maraîchers du pays ; ils fournissaient de légumes tout un quartier de Plassans.
This word in other languages
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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