margin
\maʁ.ʒɛ̃\
The verdict
“margin” is uncommon French (frequency #78,621 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,621
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de petite fouine que l’on trouve souvent nichée dans les meules et les paillons. (Jaubert, Glossaire du centre, Supplément, 1869)
Corpus desk
Index FR-margin · margin · French
margin · rank #78,621 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,621
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Marilyne
Nearest frequency peer: Marilyne (+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 « margin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manse
manse
21,384 corpus weight
- mapou
mapou
21,383 corpus weight
- Marciano
Marciano
21,382 corpus weight
- margin
margin
21,380 corpus weight
- Marilyne
Marilyne
21,379 corpus weight
- mascarpone
mascarpone
21,375 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « margin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | margin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.ʒɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,621 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « margin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
margin is uncommon French at frequency #78,621 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.ʒɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de petite fouine que l’on trouve souvent nichée dans les meules et les paillons. (Jaubert, Glossaire du centre, Supplément, 1869)".
margin has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is margin, spelled M-A-R-G-I-N.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petite fouine que l’on trouve souvent nichée dans les meules et les paillons. (Jaubert, Glossaire du centre, Supplément, 1869)
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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