margrave
\maʁ.ɡʁav\
The verdict
“margrave” is uncommon French (frequency #55,426 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,426
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Titre donné autrefois à quelques princes souverains, en Allemagne et en Autriche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-margrave · margrave · French
margrave · rank #55,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,426
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maraîcher
Nearest frequency peer: maraîcher (-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 « margrave »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maoïstes
maoïstes
44,578 corpus weight
- maquisards
maquisards
44,577 corpus weight
- maraîcher
maraîcher
44,576 corpus weight
- margrave
margrave
44,575 corpus weight
- marinier
marinier
44,574 corpus weight
- Marmara
Marmara
44,573 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « margrave » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | margrave |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.ɡʁav\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « margrave » en français
Rare enough to double-check
margrave is uncommon French at frequency #55,426 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.ɡʁav\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Titre donné autrefois à quelques princes souverains, en Allemagne et en Autriche.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for margrave in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is margrave, spelled M-A-R-G-R-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Titre donné autrefois à quelques princes souverains, en Allemagne et en Autriche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how margrave appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
…, le jeune comte Ludwig de Godesberg, âgé de dix-huit ans alors, fut fiancé à la petite Emma de Ronsdorf, qui n’en avait encore que dix : seulement il fut convenu entre le vieux margrave et la douairière que les fiancés attendraient cinq ans encore avant d’être époux.
Or, en juin, la Lusace, en août, les Moraves, Font la fête du trône et sacrent leurs margraves; C'est aujourd'hui le jour du burg mystérieux; Mahaud viendra ce soir souper chez ses aïeux.
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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