marotte

/\ma.ʁɔt\/ noun

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\.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of marotte in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  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.

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Frequency rank: #54,093 in French

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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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.