marauder
\ma.ʁo.de\
The verdict
“marauder” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pratiquer la maraude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marauder · marauder · French
marauder · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | marauder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ma.ʁo.de\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marauder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marauder is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ma.ʁo.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pratiquer la maraude.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for marauder, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is marauder, spelled M-A-R-A-U-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Pratiquer la maraude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marauder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le seul plaisir que Misère goûtât en ce monde était de manger des fruits de son jardin, c’est-à-dire de son poirier ; malheureusement, les garçonnets du village venaient marauder dans son clos.
Beaucoup de nos camarades avaient la mauvaise habitude de marauder le soir pendant que nous étions au bivac, ils attrapaient souvent quelque chose […]
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.