marmots
\maʁ.mo\
The verdict
“marmots” is uncommon French (frequency #60,192 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,192
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de marmot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marmots · marmots · French
marmots · rank #60,192 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,192
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marika
Nearest frequency peer: marika (-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 « marmots »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Maputo
Maputo
39,812 corpus weight
- marchepied
marchepied
39,811 corpus weight
- marika
marika
39,810 corpus weight
- marmots
marmots
39,809 corpus weight
- marshmallow
marshmallow
39,808 corpus weight
- Martinelli
Martinelli
39,807 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marmots » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marmots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.mo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #60,192 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marmots » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marmots is uncommon French at frequency #60,192 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.mo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de marmot.".
Zero misspellings are on record for marmots in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is marmots, spelled M-A-R-M-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de marmot.
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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