marial
\ma.ʁjal\
The verdict
“marial” is uncommon French (frequency #77,691 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,691
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne la Vierge Marie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marial · marial · French
marial · rank #77,691 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,691
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Margueritte
Nearest frequency peer: Margueritte (-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 « marial »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- malléables
malléables
22,314 corpus weight
- malwares
malwares
22,313 corpus weight
- maquettiste
maquettiste
22,312 corpus weight
- Margueritte
Margueritte
22,311 corpus weight
- marial
marial
22,310 corpus weight
- Marseillan
Marseillan
22,309 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marial » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ʁjal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marial » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marial is uncommon French at frequency #77,691 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.ʁjal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui concerne la Vierge Marie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for marial, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 marial, spelled M-A-R-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne la Vierge Marie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marial appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il me semble que cette remarque de Sainte-Beuve est loin d'être innocente ou triviale, et qu'elle résume bien divers courants de l'époque, à commencer par le renouveau du culte marial.
De fait, qu’un certain nombre parmi les sanctuaires marials aient été contemporains de la christianisation des Pyrénées, rien ne l’infirme, mais rien non plus ne le confirme.
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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