marble
\ˈmɑɹ.bl̩\
The verdict
“marble” is uncommon French (frequency #67,684 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,684
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marbre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marble · marble · French
marble · rank #67,684 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,684
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mappemonde
Nearest frequency peer: mappemonde (-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 « marble »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maestria
maestria
32,322 corpus weight
- mahorais
mahorais
32,321 corpus weight
- malaisé
malaisé
32,320 corpus weight
- mappemonde
mappemonde
32,318 corpus weight
- marble
marble
32,317 corpus weight
- Marennes
Marennes
32,316 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marble » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marble |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈmɑɹ.bl̩\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marble » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marble is uncommon French at frequency #67,684 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈmɑɹ.bl̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for marble in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is marble, spelled M-A-R-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Marbre.
- 2Bille des jeux enfantins.
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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