marceline
\maʁ.sə.lin\
The verdict
“marceline” is uncommon French (frequency #59,427 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,427
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Silicate rose de manganèse provenant de Saint-Marcel, en Piémont, c'est une variété de braunite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marceline · marceline · French
marceline · rank #59,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,427
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maraîchage
Nearest frequency peer: maraîchage (-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 « marceline »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manichéen
manichéen
40,577 corpus weight
- manichéenne
manichéenne
40,576 corpus weight
- maraîchage
maraîchage
40,575 corpus weight
- marceline
marceline
40,574 corpus weight
- marcs
marcs
40,572 corpus weight
- marr
marr
40,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marceline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marceline |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.sə.lin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #59,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marceline » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marceline is uncommon French at frequency #59,427 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.sə.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for marceline, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is marceline, spelled M-A-R-C-E-L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Silicate rose de manganèse provenant de Saint-Marcel, en Piémont, c'est une variété de braunite.
- 2Étoffe de soie douce et légère. C'est une sorte de taffetas dit en compte léger.
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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