maraudeur

\ma.ʁo.dœʁ\

/\ma.ʁo.dœʁ\/ adj

The verdict

“maraudeur” is uncommon French (frequency #66,900 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,900
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui pratique la maraude.

Corpus desk

Index FR-maraudeur · maraudeur · French

maraudeur · rank #66,900 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,900
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Mecklembourg

Nearest frequency peer: Mecklembourg (+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 « maraudeur »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maraudeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for maraudeur
PropertyValue
Headwordmaraudeur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ma.ʁo.dœʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#66,900
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « maraudeur » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).maraudeurtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Mecklembourg » (#66,901), « manigance » (#66,898), « menteuses » (#66,902). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « maraudeur » est au #66,900. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

maraudeur is uncommon French at frequency #66,900 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.ʁo.dœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui pratique la maraude.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for maraudeur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

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 French form is maraudeur, spelled M-A-R-A-U-D-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui pratique la maraude.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how maraudeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La région où nous allons nous engager est infestée de soldats pillards et de bédouins maraudeurs, profitant tous de l'anarchie générale pour satisfaire leurs instincts de rapine.
  2. À présent, les roseaux remuaient, des bêtes maraudeuses fuyaient ou plongeaient et le battement des ailes invisibles avait recommencé dans les hautes branches.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "maraudeur"?
"maraudeur" is spelled M-A-R-A-U-D-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʁo.dœʁ\.
What does "maraudeur" mean?
As an adjective, "maraudeur" means: Qui pratique la maraude.
How do you pronounce "maraudeur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "maraudeur" is \ma.ʁo.dœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "maraudeur", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list