Marinette
\ma.ʁi.nɛt\
The verdict
“Marinette” is uncommon French (frequency #71,686 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,686
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marinette · Marinette · French
Marinette · rank #71,686 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,686
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Marcella
Nearest frequency peer: Marcella (-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 « Marinette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manageur
manageur
28,318 corpus weight
- Marcella
Marcella
28,316 corpus weight
- Marinette
Marinette
28,315 corpus weight
- married
married
28,314 corpus weight
- Marsha
Marsha
28,313 corpus weight
- massues
massues
28,312 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Marinette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marinette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁi.nɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,686 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Marinette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Marinette is uncommon French at frequency #71,686 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.ʁi.nɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Marinette, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Marinette, spelled M-A-R-I-N-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
- 2Diminutif affectueux pour différents prénoms féminins similaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Marinette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand j'ai couru chanter ma petite chanson pour Marinette La belle, la traîtresse était allée à l'opéra Avec ma petite chanson, j'avais l'air d'un con, ma mère Avec ma petite chanson, j'avais l'air d'un con.
Cent douze sélections chez les Bleues, entre 1994 et 2006, et 81 buts marqués, le CV de Marinette Pichon est costaud.
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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