Marocain

/\ma.ʁɔ.kɛ̃\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,340

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

Marocain is aFrenchnoun. It means: Habitant du Maroc. Pronounced \ma.ʁɔ.kɛ̃\. It ranks #7,340 in French word frequency. Often confused with marocaine and marocains.

Key facts for Marocain
PropertyValue
HeadwordMarocain
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.ʁɔ.kɛ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,340
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Marocain in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Marocain is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʁɔ.kɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,340 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Habitant du Maroc.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for Marocain, with forms such as "amrocain", "maorcain", and "marcoain". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "marocaine", "marocains", "marocaines", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Marocain, spelled M-A-R-O-C-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Habitant du Maroc.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amrocain,maorcain,marcoain,maroacin,marocainn,marocani,maroccain,marocian,marrocain,mmarocain,mraocain

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Marocain

Misspelling Variants of "Marocain"

amrocain8maorcain8marcoain8maroacin8marocainn9marocani8maroccain9marocian8
Misspelling Variants of "Marocain"

Frequency rank: #7,340 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Marocain"?
"Marocain" is spelled M-A-R-O-C-A-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʁɔ.kɛ̃\.
What does "Marocain" mean?
As a noun, "Marocain" means: Habitant du Maroc.
What words are commonly confused with "Marocain"?
"Marocain" is commonly confused with "marocaine", "marocains", "marocaines". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Marocain"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Marocain" is \ma.ʁɔ.kɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Marocain" come from?
"Marocain" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.