marginalité
\maʁ.ʒi.na.li.te\
The verdict
“marginalité” is uncommon French (frequency #54,090 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,090
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est marginal, de ce qui n’est pas conformiste.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marginalite · marginalité · French
marginalité · rank #54,090 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,090
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marinade
Nearest frequency peer: marinade (+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 « marginalité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mangrove
mangrove
45,914 corpus weight
- mansion
mansion
45,913 corpus weight
- marginalité
marginalité
45,911 corpus weight
- marinade
marinade
45,910 corpus weight
- marlins
marlins
45,909 corpus weight
- marotte
marotte
45,908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marginalité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marginalité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.ʒi.na.li.te\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marginalité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marginalité is uncommon French at frequency #54,090 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.ʒi.na.li.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractère de ce qui est marginal, de ce qui n’est pas conformiste.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for marginalité in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is marginalité, spelled M-A-R-G-I-N-A-L-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Caractère de ce qui est marginal, de ce qui n’est pas conformiste.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marginalité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
S’agissant de la marginalité sociale, Robert Castel la définit comme relevant de l’aboutissement d’un double processus de décrochage : un décrochage économique (abandon forcé du travail) et un décrochage social des formes instituées de protection sociale.
D’ailleurs, l’élection de Trump peut s’expliquer évidemment aussi par l’arrogance de l’élite démocrate. Ses flirts avec toutes les marginalités à la mode et sa corruption de gauche caviar ont participé à son recul.
Synonyms
Antonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).