maraudeur
\ma.ʁo.dœʁ\
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
- manchons
manchons
33,105 corpus weight
- manigance
manigance
33,103 corpus weight
- maraudeur
maraudeur
33,101 corpus weight
- Mecklembourg
Mecklembourg
33,100 corpus weight
- menteuses
menteuses
33,099 corpus weight
- menues
menues
33,098 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maraudeur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maraudeur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ʁo.dœʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,900 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maraudeur » en français
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
- 1Qui pratique la maraude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maraudeur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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