marcotin
\maʁ.kɔ.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“marcotin” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Branche qu’on couche en terre, et que l’on ne sépare de la plante mère que lorsqu’elle a pris racine ^([1]).
Corpus desk
Index FR-marcotin · marcotin · French
marcotin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marcotin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.kɔ.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marcotin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marcotin is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.kɔ.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for marcotin in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is marcotin, spelled M-A-R-C-O-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Branche qu’on couche en terre, et que l’on ne sépare de la plante mère que lorsqu’elle a pris racine ^([1]).
- 2Petit fagot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marcotin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La longue multiplication de l’olivier, à l’aide de marcotins et de boutures, a fait perdre à cet arbre son port primitif et sa grandeur naturelle.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.