marelle
\ma.ʁɛl\
The verdict
“marelle” is uncommon French (frequency #62,430 among 202,672 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,430
- frequency rank, French
- 202,672
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Jeu d’enfants qui consiste en une sorte de rectangle divisé en cases tracées sur le sol, dans lequel on saute à cloche-pied en poussant avec le bout du pied une sorte de palet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marelle” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
marelle is uncommon French at frequency #62,430 among 202,672 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʁɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
marelle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is marelle, spelled M-A-R-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Jeu d’enfants qui consiste en une sorte de rectangle divisé en cases tracées sur le sol, dans lequel on saute à cloche-pied en poussant avec le bout du pied une sorte de palet.
- 2Synonyme de jeu du moulin.
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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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Using “marelle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-R-E-L-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ma.ʁɛl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.