maroquin
\ma.ʁɔ.kɛ̃\
The verdict
“maroquin” is uncommon French (frequency #61,676 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,676
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui ressemble au maroquin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maroquin · maroquin · French
maroquin · rank #61,676 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,676
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mariale
Nearest frequency peer: mariale (-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 « maroquin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mangeront
mangeront
38,327 corpus weight
- mariale
mariale
38,326 corpus weight
- maroquin
maroquin
38,325 corpus weight
- Maroua
Maroua
38,324 corpus weight
- marquerait
marquerait
38,323 corpus weight
- marécageuse
marécageuse
38,322 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « maroquin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | maroquin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ʁɔ.kɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « maroquin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
maroquin is uncommon French at frequency #61,676 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ma.ʁɔ.kɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui ressemble au maroquin.".
Zero misspellings are on record for maroquin in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is maroquin, spelled M-A-R-O-Q-U-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui ressemble au maroquin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how maroquin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une reliure maroquin.
Papier maroquin.
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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