Marcillac
\maʁ.si.jak\
The verdict
“Marcillac” is uncommon French (frequency #84,048 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,048
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde intégrée à la commune de Val-de-Livenne en janvier 2019.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marcillac · Marcillac · French
Marcillac · rank #84,048 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,048
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marchèrent
Nearest frequency peer: marchèrent (-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 « Marcillac »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mapuche
mapuche
15,956 corpus weight
- maracas
maracas
15,955 corpus weight
- marchèrent
marchèrent
15,954 corpus weight
- Marcillac
Marcillac
15,953 corpus weight
- massent
massent
15,951 corpus weight
- mast
mast
15,950 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Marcillac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marcillac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.si.jak\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Marcillac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Marcillac is uncommon French at frequency #84,048 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \maʁ.si.jak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Marcillac in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Marcillac, spelled M-A-R-C-I-L-L-A-C.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de la Gironde intégrée à la commune de Val-de-Livenne en janvier 2019.
- 2Nom court de Marcillac-la-Croisille, commune française située dans le département de la Corrèze.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Marcillac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’AS Marcillac Clergoux peut également se réjouir et a eu l'honneur de voir Maelys Leyris (Catégorie U11 ASMC) “lors de son voyage à Toulouse le 17 juin à l’occasion du match Italie – Suède d’accompagner le joueur italien Antonio Candreva (n°6) de la Lazio de Rome lors de l’entrée des équipes sur le terrain et durant les hymnes nationaux”.
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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