marlins
\maʁ.lɛ̃\
The verdict
“marlins” is uncommon French (frequency #54,092 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,092
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de marlin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marlins · marlins · French
marlins · rank #54,092 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,092
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marinade
Nearest frequency peer: marinade (-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 « marlins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mansion
mansion
45,913 corpus weight
- marginalité
marginalité
45,911 corpus weight
- marinade
marinade
45,910 corpus weight
- marlins
marlins
45,909 corpus weight
- marotte
marotte
45,908 corpus weight
- Matic
Matic
45,906 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marlins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marlins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.lɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marlins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marlins is uncommon French at frequency #54,092 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.lɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de marlin.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for marlins, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is marlins, spelled M-A-R-L-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de marlin.
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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