marcs

\maʁ\

/\maʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“marcs” is uncommon French (frequency #59,429 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#59,429
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de marc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-marcs · marcs · French

marcs · rank #59,429 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #59,429
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH marr

Nearest frequency peer: marr (+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 « marcs »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marcs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for marcs
PropertyValue
Headwordmarcs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\maʁ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#59,429
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « marcs » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).marcstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « marr » (#59,430), « marceline » (#59,427), « martiniquaise » (#59,431). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « marcs » est au #59,429. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

marcs is uncommon French at frequency #59,429 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de marc.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for marcs in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is marcs, spelled M-A-R-C-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de marc.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how marcs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les marcs ou aines, sont souvent retaillés, humectés d’un peu d’eau et repressés ; ils donnent ainsi un cidre léger, dit retaille.
  2. Le vin de sucre est fait avec les aines ou marcs, qui doivent alors être extraits du pressoir avant de se trouver complètement épuisés.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "marcs"?
"marcs" is spelled M-A-R-C-S. The IPA pronunciation is \maʁ\.
What does "marcs" mean?
As a noun, "marcs" means: Pluriel de marc.
How do you pronounce "marcs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marcs" is \maʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "marcs" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "marcs", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

mande#59,423mesme#59,443leach#59,403Kateb#59,388

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list