marimba
\ma.ʁim.ba\
The verdict
“marimba” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Xylophone africain dont chaque lame est munie d’un résonateur en bambou, en bois, ou en calebasse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marimba · marimba · French
marimba · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marimba |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁim.ba\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marimba » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marimba is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʁim.ba\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Xylophone africain dont chaque lame est munie d’un résonateur en bambou, en bois, ou en calebasse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for marimba, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 marimba, spelled M-A-R-I-M-B-A.
Definition
- 1Xylophone africain dont chaque lame est munie d’un résonateur en bambou, en bois, ou en calebasse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marimba appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le marimba se joue avec deux, parfois trois bâtons dans chaque main.
Le marimba est l’instrument national du Guatemala et est très populaire au Mexique.
Synonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.