mariachi
\ma.ʁja.ʃi\
The verdict
“mariachi” is uncommon French (frequency #97,139 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,139
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Formation musicale originaire du Mexique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mariachi · mariachi · French
mariachi · rank #97,139 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,139
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mantle
Nearest frequency peer: mantle (-2 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 « mariachi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Manifest
Manifest
2,866 corpus weight
- Manitobaine
Manitobaine
2,865 corpus weight
- mantle
mantle
2,864 corpus weight
- mariachi
mariachi
2,862 corpus weight
- Marienbad
Marienbad
2,860 corpus weight
- marinus
marinus
2,859 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « mariachi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mariachi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁja.ʃi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,139 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mariachi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mariachi is uncommon French at frequency #97,139 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʁja.ʃi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for mariachi, 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mariachi, spelled M-A-R-I-A-C-H-I.
Definition
- 1Formation musicale originaire du Mexique.
- 2Style de musique et culture musicale associés à ce type de formations musicales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mariachi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un groupe de mariachis est constitué au moins de deux violons, deux trompettes, un joueur de guitare espagnole, un vihuela et d’un guitarron. Certaines formations comportent plusieurs dizaines de musiciens.
Le « pays de naissance » des mariachis est la ville de Guadalajara au Mexique.
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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