Maroni
\ma.ʁo.ni\
The verdict
“Maroni” is uncommon French (frequency #52,189 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,189
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fleuve de Guyane française faisant frontière avec le Surinam.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maroni · Maroni · French
Maroni · rank #52,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,189
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marginalisé
Nearest frequency peer: marginalisé (-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 « Maroni »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- malpoli
malpoli
47,815 corpus weight
- manquerais
manquerais
47,814 corpus weight
- marginalisé
marginalisé
47,813 corpus weight
- Maroni
Maroni
47,812 corpus weight
- masquées
masquées
47,811 corpus weight
- maxillaire
maxillaire
47,810 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Maroni » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maroni |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁo.ni\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Maroni » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Maroni is uncommon French at frequency #52,189 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.ʁo.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fleuve de Guyane française faisant frontière avec le Surinam.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Maroni, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Maroni, spelled M-A-R-O-N-I.
Definition
- 1Fleuve de Guyane française faisant frontière avec le Surinam.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Maroni appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des communautés d’esclaves marrons, Bushinenges et Noirs Boni, se forment très tôt sur les rives du fleuve Maroni.
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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