mardelle
\maʁ.dɛl\
The verdict
“mardelle” 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) - Variante de margelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mardelle · mardelle · French
mardelle · 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 | mardelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.dɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mardelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mardelle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.dɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mardelle, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is mardelle, spelled M-A-R-D-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de margelle.
- 2Dépression en eau, souvent formée par une doline comblée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mardelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La réussite nʼest pas toujours totale, comme chez le cartier papetier Mandrou, où il reste près de 20 cm de mardelle de pierre au-dessus du pavé de la cour.
D’abord l’essor de la mécanisation et son corrélat, les opérations de remembrement et de drainage qui ont conduit à une simplification des objets connexes (haies, bosquets, ripisylves) et des zones humides (mardelles, prairies inondables).
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.