marotte
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#54,093
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
marotte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sceptre de la folie, surmonté d’une tête grotesque coiffée d’un capuchon bigarré de différentes couleurs et garnie de grelots. Pronounced \ma.ʁɔt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁɔt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,093 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for marotte is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʁɔt\. Corpus data places it at rank #54,093 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for marotte in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 marotte, spelled M-A-R-O-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sceptre de la folie, surmonté d’une tête grotesque coiffée d’un capuchon bigarré de différentes couleurs et garnie de grelots.
- 2Marionnette dont la tête est fixée sur un bout de bois.
- 3Tête en bois, en carton ou en cire, dont se servent les modistes et les coiffeurs pour exposer leurs modèles.
- 4Idée fixe, opinion, sentiment dont on s’est engoué, qu’on adapte à toutes les circonstances et dont on ne cesse de parler.
- 5Tableau avant d'un dériveur dont l'étrave est tronquée.
- 6Petite fille.
- 7Chevalet de tonnelier, banc possédant une sorte de valet pour bloquer les bois, et que l'on maintient serré avec la force des pieds.
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Frequency rank: #54,093 in French
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