maronite
\ma.ʁɔ.nit\
The verdict
“maronite” is uncommon French (frequency #64,597 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,597
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Catholique du rite syrien, dont le siège principal est au Liban.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maronite · maronite · French
maronite · rank #64,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,597
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marla
Nearest frequency peer: marla (-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 « maronite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mangeoire
mangeoire
35,407 corpus weight
- manifestez
manifestez
35,406 corpus weight
- marla
marla
35,405 corpus weight
- maronite
maronite
35,404 corpus weight
- martres
martres
35,403 corpus weight
- mastering
mastering
35,402 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maronite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maronite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁɔ.nit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maronite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maronite is uncommon French at frequency #64,597 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʁɔ.nit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Catholique du rite syrien, dont le siège principal est au Liban.".
No misspelling variants are generated for maronite in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is maronite, spelled M-A-R-O-N-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Catholique du rite syrien, dont le siège principal est au Liban.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maronite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un maronite le dirigera, alors que le caza de Zahlé (le plus petit de tous : sa superficie ne dépasse pas 30 km2) regroupe à l’est la masse de la communauté melchite.
Nous proposons un classement des toponymes beyrouthins selon la confession du commémoré ou de l’établissement toponymisé ou le nom de famille, regroupés selon leur classement officiel au Parlement libanais: sunnites, chiites, druzes, alaouites, maronites, grecs-catholiques, grecs-orthodoxes, arméniens orthodoxes et catholiques, minorités chrétiennes, et j…
This word in other languages
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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