marinier
\ma.ʁi.nje\
The verdict
“marinier” is uncommon French (frequency #55,427 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,427
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la mer, aux marins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marinier · marinier · French
marinier · rank #55,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,427
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH margrave
Nearest frequency peer: margrave (-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 « marinier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maquisards
maquisards
44,577 corpus weight
- maraîcher
maraîcher
44,576 corpus weight
- margrave
margrave
44,575 corpus weight
- marinier
marinier
44,574 corpus weight
- Marmara
Marmara
44,573 corpus weight
- masterclass
masterclass
44,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marinier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marinier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ʁi.nje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marinier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marinier is uncommon French at frequency #55,427 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.ʁi.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la mer, aux marins.".
marinier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is marinier, spelled M-A-R-I-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la mer, aux marins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marinier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Connaissance nécessaires, langage nautique, manœuvre, qualités du canot et du canotier, voilà ce qui nous occupera spécialement, et nous répandrons à pleines mains les trésors de notre érudition marinière.
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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