Maroua
\maʁ.wa\
The verdict
“Maroua” is uncommon French (frequency #61,677 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,677
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville du Nord du Cameroun.
Corpus desk
Index FR-maroua · Maroua · French
Maroua · rank #61,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,677
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maroquin
Nearest frequency peer: maroquin (-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 « Maroua »
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 « Maroua » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Maroua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.wa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Maroua » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Maroua is uncommon French at frequency #61,677 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \maʁ.wa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville du Nord du Cameroun.".
Maroua has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Maroua, spelled M-A-R-O-U-A.
Definition
- 1Ville du Nord du Cameroun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Maroua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis que sa fille lui a fait part de son intention d’aller travailler comme domestique à Maroua, la métropole régionale distante d’une cinquantaine de kilomètres, après un instant d’effarement Kondem a plongé dans le désespoir, puis cédé à la colère, sans que l’adolescente renonce à son projet.
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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