marmottes
\maʁ.mɔt\
The verdict
“marmottes” is uncommon French (frequency #54,718 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,718
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de marmotte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marmottes · marmottes · French
marmottes · rank #54,718 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,718
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marketplace
Nearest frequency peer: marketplace (-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 « marmottes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manufacturi…
manufacturières
45,286 corpus weight
- marginaliser
marginaliser
45,285 corpus weight
- marketplace
marketplace
45,284 corpus weight
- marmottes
marmottes
45,283 corpus weight
- maroon
maroon
45,282 corpus weight
- mastodontes
mastodontes
45,281 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marmottes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marmottes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.mɔt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marmottes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marmottes is uncommon French at frequency #54,718 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.mɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de marmotte.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for marmottes, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is marmottes, spelled M-A-R-M-O-T-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de marmotte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marmottes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors, le roi des marmottes, est-ce que cette échappée t’a désenchiffonné les humeurs ? demanda l’hôtesse.
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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