marotte

\ma.ʁɔt\

/\ma.ʁɔt\/ noun

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The verdict

“marotte” is uncommon French (frequency #54,093 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,093
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sceptre de la folie, surmonté d’une tête grotesque coiffée d’un capuchon bigarré de différentes couleurs et garnie de grelots.

Corpus desk

Index FR-marotte · marotte · French

marotte · rank #54,093 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,093
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH marlins

Nearest frequency peer: marlins (-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 « marotte »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marotte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for marotte
PropertyValue
Headwordmarotte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.ʁɔt\
Letters7
Frequency rank#54,093
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « marotte » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.marottetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « marlins » (#54,092), « marinade » (#54,091), « Matic » (#54,095). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « marotte » est au #54,093. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

marotte is uncommon French at frequency #54,093 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʁɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.

marotte doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is marotte, spelled M-A-R-O-T-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sceptre de la folie, surmonté d’une tête grotesque coiffée d’un capuchon bigarré de différentes couleurs et garnie de grelots.
  2. 2
    Marionnette dont la tête est fixée sur un bout de bois.
  3. 3
    Tête en bois, en carton ou en cire, dont se servent les modistes et les coiffeurs pour exposer leurs modèles.
  4. 4
    Idée fixe, opinion, sentiment dont on s’est engoué, qu’on adapte à toutes les circonstances et dont on ne cesse de parler.
  5. 5
    Tableau avant d'un dériveur dont l'étrave est tronquée.
  6. 6
    Petite fille.
  7. 7
    Chevalet de tonnelier, banc possédant une sorte de valet pour bloquer les bois, et que l'on maintient serré avec la force des pieds.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how marotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mon bonnet de fou me servait de casque, et ma marotte de bâton.
  2. Voici venir la Saint-Martin et ses brandons, Noël et ses bougies, le jour de l’an et ses joujoux, les Rois et leur fête, le Carnaval et sa marotte.

Synonyms

fixationhantiseidée fixemanie

This word in other languages

scepter(English)Hutkopf(Deutsch)mania(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "marotte"?
"marotte" is spelled M-A-R-O-T-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʁɔt\.
What does "marotte" mean?
As a noun, "marotte" means: Sceptre de la folie, surmonté d’une tête grotesque coiffée d’un capuchon bigarré de différentes couleurs et garnie de grelots.
How do you pronounce "marotte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marotte" is \ma.ʁɔt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "marotte" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "marotte", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

marlins#54,092mansion#54,088Lussier#54,081Minerva#54,107

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list