Marle
\maʁl\
The verdict
“Marle” is uncommon French (frequency #73,340 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,340
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aisne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marle · Marle · French
Marle · rank #73,340 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,340
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marineland
Nearest frequency peer: marineland (-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 « Marle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maoïsme
maoïsme
26,665 corpus weight
- marierai
marierai
26,663 corpus weight
- marineland
marineland
26,662 corpus weight
- Marle
Marle
26,661 corpus weight
- marmot
marmot
26,660 corpus weight
- marnais
marnais
26,658 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Marle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \maʁl\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #73,340 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Marle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Marle is uncommon French at frequency #73,340 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \maʁl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Marle doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 Marle, spelled M-A-R-L-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aisne.
- 2Hameau des Pays-Bas situé dans la commune de Hellendoorn.
- 3Hameau des Pays-Bas situé dans la commune de Olst-Wijhe.
- 4Canton français, situé dans le département de l’Aisne.
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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