margelle
\maʁ.ʒɛl\
The verdict
“margelle” is uncommon French (frequency #74,985 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,985
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rebord d’un puits, d’un bassin, d’une piscine, d’un escalier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-margelle · margelle · French
margelle · rank #74,985 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,985
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Marcilly
Nearest frequency peer: Marcilly (-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 « margelle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- marchions
marchions
25,019 corpus weight
- Marciac
Marciac
25,018 corpus weight
- Marcilly
Marcilly
25,017 corpus weight
- margelle
margelle
25,016 corpus weight
- martyriser
martyriser
25,014 corpus weight
- matar
matar
25,012 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « margelle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | margelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.ʒɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,985 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « margelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
margelle is uncommon French at frequency #74,985 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.ʒɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for margelle, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is margelle, spelled M-A-R-G-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Rebord d’un puits, d’un bassin, d’une piscine, d’un escalier.
- 2Toute chose évoquant une margelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how margelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En allongeant la tête, il aperçut Miette penchée sur la margelle, regardant dans le puits, tout absorbée par l’attente.
Il n’existe plus, dans l’intérieur de la cité, que quelques débris des maisons anciennes et trois puits. L’un large, avec belle margelle surmontée de trois piliers, margelle et piliers qui datent du XIVᵉ siècle.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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