maronites
\ma.ʁɔ.nit\
The verdict
“maronites” is uncommon French (frequency #63,910 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,910
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de maronite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maronites · maronites · French
maronites · rank #63,910 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,910
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marit
Nearest frequency peer: marit (-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 « maronites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Marchi
Marchi
36,094 corpus weight
- marginalisé…
marginalisées
36,093 corpus weight
- marit
marit
36,092 corpus weight
- maronites
maronites
36,091 corpus weight
- Mastroianni
Mastroianni
36,089 corpus weight
- matrimoniaux
matrimoniaux
36,088 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maronites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maronites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ʁɔ.nit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,910 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maronites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maronites is uncommon French at frequency #63,910 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.ʁɔ.nit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de maronite.".
Zero misspellings are on record for maronites in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is maronites, spelled M-A-R-O-N-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de maronite.
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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