marigot
\ma.ʁi.ɡo\
The verdict
“marigot” is uncommon French (frequency #57,409 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,409
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit marais tropical, bras mort de rivière ou de fleuve en Afrique. En Afrique, tout point d’eau alimenté par les pluies, les débordements d’un fleuve ou des nappes souterraines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marigot · marigot · French
marigot · rank #57,409 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,409
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maraîchère
Nearest frequency peer: maraîchère (-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 « marigot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- malou
malou
42,595 corpus weight
- mammouths
mammouths
42,594 corpus weight
- maraîchère
maraîchère
42,593 corpus weight
- marigot
marigot
42,592 corpus weight
- marécageuses
marécageuses
42,591 corpus weight
- Mathy
Mathy
42,590 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marigot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marigot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁi.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,409 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marigot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marigot is uncommon French at frequency #57,409 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʁi.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for marigot, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 marigot, spelled M-A-R-I-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1Petit marais tropical, bras mort de rivière ou de fleuve en Afrique. En Afrique, tout point d’eau alimenté par les pluies, les débordements d’un fleuve ou des nappes souterraines.
- 2Groupe de personnes se livrant une compétition occulte pour le pouvoir.
- 3Milieu professionnel, où la compétition peut être féroce.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marigot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les lignes extrêmes du territoire des Maures Trarzas s’étendent, sur la rive droite du Sénégal, en regard du royaume de Walo, depuis la mer jusqu’au marigot de Gaïé, où commence le pays de Fouta ; […].
La conduite principale est constituée d'un tuyau Bonna en béton précontraint radialement et longitudinalement de 35 km dont 3 km en aérien pour franchir les marigots ; […]
Synonyms
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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