marmaille
\maʁ.maj\
The verdict
“marmaille” is uncommon French (frequency #69,225 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,225
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupe, ensemble de jeunes enfants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marmaille · marmaille · French
marmaille · rank #69,225 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,225
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maritale
Nearest frequency peer: maritale (-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 « marmaille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- marginalisée
marginalisée
30,779 corpus weight
- marital
marital
30,778 corpus weight
- maritale
maritale
30,777 corpus weight
- marmaille
marmaille
30,776 corpus weight
- Maslow
Maslow
30,774 corpus weight
- Mauléon
Mauléon
30,772 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marmaille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marmaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.maj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marmaille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marmaille is uncommon French at frequency #69,225 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.maj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Groupe, ensemble de jeunes enfants.".
Zero misspellings are on record for marmaille in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is marmaille, spelled M-A-R-M-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Groupe, ensemble de jeunes enfants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marmaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Qu’à cela ne tienne, fieu. Je m’engagerai, s’il le faut, à respecter la marmaille.
Imposer pour premier devoir à la femme d’être une machine à engendrer de la marmaille, aux dépens de sa jeunesse et de sa beauté, ce n’est pas la considérer comme un être humain cultivé et intelligent, […].
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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