Marmara
\maʁ.ma.ʁa\
The verdict
“Marmara” is uncommon French (frequency #55,428 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,428
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île de la mer de Marmara, proche de la cité de Cyzique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marmara · Marmara · French
Marmara · rank #55,428 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,428
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marinier
Nearest frequency peer: marinier (-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 « Marmara »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maraîcher
maraîcher
44,576 corpus weight
- margrave
margrave
44,575 corpus weight
- marinier
marinier
44,574 corpus weight
- Marmara
Marmara
44,573 corpus weight
- masterclass
masterclass
44,571 corpus weight
- Maurer
Maurer
44,570 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Marmara » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marmara |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.ma.ʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Marmara » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Marmara is uncommon French at frequency #55,428 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \maʁ.ma.ʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Île de la mer de Marmara, proche de la cité de Cyzique.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Marmara in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 Marmara, spelled M-A-R-M-A-R-A.
Definition
- 1Île de la mer de Marmara, proche de la cité de Cyzique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Marmara appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En quittant le port de Karaki, nous nous sommes trouvés en face des îles de Marmara, appelées Proconnèse chez les anciens ; ce sont des îles pauvres et peu habitées. Elles ont reçu le nom de Marmara de leurs carrières de marbre. Ces carrières ont fourni les marbres des palais et des temples dont nous avons cherché les ruines. On les exploite aujourd’hui p…
Synonyms
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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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