marla
\maʁ.la\
The verdict
“marla” is uncommon French (frequency #64,596 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,596
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de marler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marla · marla · French
marla · rank #64,596 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,596
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manifestez
Nearest frequency peer: manifestez (-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 « marla »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mangeoire
mangeoire
35,407 corpus weight
- manifestez
manifestez
35,406 corpus weight
- marla
marla
35,405 corpus weight
- maronite
maronite
35,404 corpus weight
- martres
martres
35,403 corpus weight
- mastering
mastering
35,402 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marla » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marla |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \maʁ.la\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marla » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marla is uncommon French at frequency #64,596 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \maʁ.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de marler.".
marla has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is marla, spelled M-A-R-L-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de marler.
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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