Maraval
\ma.ʁa.val\
The verdict
“Maraval” is uncommon French (frequency #96,104 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,104
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maraval · Maraval · French
Maraval · rank #96,104 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,104
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manœuvrant
Nearest frequency peer: manœuvrant (-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 « Maraval »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manni
manni
3,900 corpus weight
- manquions
manquions
3,899 corpus weight
- manœuvrant
manœuvrant
3,898 corpus weight
- Maraval
Maraval
3,897 corpus weight
- Marinella
Marinella
3,896 corpus weight
- marinières
marinières
3,895 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Maraval » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maraval |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁa.val\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,104 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Maraval » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Maraval is uncommon French at frequency #96,104 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.ʁa.val\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Maraval, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Maraval, spelled M-A-R-A-V-A-L.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Maraval appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En revanche Mariette lui affirme que Gilberte Maraval est encore en vie, tout à fait bien portante – du moins aux dernières nouvelles – et qu’elle habite toujours à Neuvic-sur-l’Isle.
Monsieur lui a un jour donné un énorme coup de poing dans ses parties génitales, à tel point qu’elle avait fait une fausse couche, raconte Amandine Maraval, directrice du Lao Pow’her.
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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