marinade
\ma.ʁi.nad\
The verdict
“marinade” is uncommon French (frequency #54,091 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,091
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liquide assaisonné, souvent à base d’huile, dans lequel sont mis à tremper, quelques heures, des morceaux de viande ou de poisson pour les attendrir et en modifier le goût.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marinade · marinade · French
marinade · rank #54,091 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,091
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marginalité
Nearest frequency peer: marginalité (-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 « marinade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mangrove
mangrove
45,914 corpus weight
- mansion
mansion
45,913 corpus weight
- marginalité
marginalité
45,911 corpus weight
- marinade
marinade
45,910 corpus weight
- marlins
marlins
45,909 corpus weight
- marotte
marotte
45,908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marinade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marinade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁi.nad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marinade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marinade is uncommon French at frequency #54,091 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʁi.nad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
marinade doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is marinade, spelled M-A-R-I-N-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Liquide assaisonné, souvent à base d’huile, dans lequel sont mis à tremper, quelques heures, des morceaux de viande ou de poisson pour les attendrir et en modifier le goût.
- 2Viande ou légume mariné & frit à la poêle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marinade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Préparer une marinade avec un oignon émincé, de l’huile d’olive et du vin rouge.
Au mélange d’épices, incorporer le yaourt, l’ail, le gingembre, les amandes, la poudre de chili, le jus de citron et le sel pour obtenir la marinade. En enduire délicatement la viande à la main, en prenant soin de la faire pénétrer dans les ciselures. Laisser mariner le gigot toute une nuit.
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); 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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