Marlborough
The verdict
“Marlborough” is uncommon French (frequency #53,477 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,477
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Angleterre située dans le Wiltshire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marlborough · Marlborough · French
Marlborough · rank #53,477 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,477
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mareuil
Nearest frequency peer: Mareuil (-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 « Marlborough »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maladroites
maladroites
46,528 corpus weight
- malpropre
malpropre
46,526 corpus weight
- Mareuil
Mareuil
46,525 corpus weight
- Marlborough
Marlborough
46,524 corpus weight
- massacrée
massacrée
46,523 corpus weight
- matra
matra
46,521 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Marlborough » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marlborough |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #53,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Marlborough » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Marlborough is uncommon French at frequency #53,477 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Marlborough, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Marlborough, spelled M-A-R-L-B-O-R-O-U-G-H.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Angleterre située dans le Wiltshire.
- 2Duc de Marlborough.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Marlborough appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
MINDELHEIM, (Géog.) ville d’Allemagne au cercle de Suabe dans l’Algow, sur la riviere de Mindel. C’est la capitale d’un petit état entre l’Iller & le Lech, qui appartient à la maison de Baviere. L’empereur, après la bataille d’Hohestedt, créa Marlborough prince de l’empire, en érigeant en sa faveur Mindelheim en principauté, qui fut depuis échangée contre…
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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