Marienbad
\ma.ʁjɛn.bad\
The verdict
“Marienbad” is uncommon French (frequency #97,141 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,141
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Station thermale du district de Cheb, dans la région de Karlovy Vary, en Tchéquie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marienbad · Marienbad · French
Marienbad · rank #97,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,141
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marinus
Nearest frequency peer: marinus (+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 « Marienbad »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mantle
mantle
2,864 corpus weight
- mariachi
mariachi
2,862 corpus weight
- Marienbad
Marienbad
2,860 corpus weight
- marinus
marinus
2,859 corpus weight
- martelage
martelage
2,858 corpus weight
- Marylise
Marylise
2,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Marienbad » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marienbad |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁjɛn.bad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #97,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Marienbad » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Marienbad is uncommon French at frequency #97,141 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.ʁjɛn.bad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Station thermale du district de Cheb, dans la région de Karlovy Vary, en Tchéquie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Marienbad, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Marienbad, spelled M-A-R-I-E-N-B-A-D.
Definition
- 1Station thermale du district de Cheb, dans la région de Karlovy Vary, en Tchéquie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Marienbad appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'Année dernière à Marienbad.
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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