marital
\ma.ʁi.tal\
The verdict
“marital” is uncommon French (frequency #69,223 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,223
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport au mari.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marital · marital · French
marital · rank #69,223 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,223
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marginalisée
Nearest frequency peer: marginalisée (-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 « marital »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maléfice
maléfice
30,782 corpus weight
- Mannschaft
Mannschaft
30,781 corpus weight
- marginalisée
marginalisée
30,779 corpus weight
- marital
marital
30,778 corpus weight
- maritale
maritale
30,777 corpus weight
- marmaille
marmaille
30,776 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marital » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marital |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ʁi.tal\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marital » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marital is uncommon French at frequency #69,223 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.ʁi.tal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a rapport au mari.".
No misspelling variants are generated for marital in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is marital, spelled M-A-R-I-T-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport au mari.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marital appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pierre, avec cet orgueil marital qui donne à un homme la croyance de sa supériorité dans le ménage, avait fini par attribuer à sa femme toutes les mauvaises chances passées.
Comment ?… une femme noire oser, même en paroles, se rebeller contre l’autorité maritale et essayer de tenir tête à ses démonstrations habituelles tangibles et ultra-convaincantes ?
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).