marqueterie
\maʁ.kə.tʁi\
The verdict
“marqueterie” is uncommon French (frequency #56,099 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,099
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrage de bois de diverses couleurs, appliqués par feuilles minces sur de la menuiserie, de manière à former des compartiments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marqueterie · marqueterie · French
marqueterie · rank #56,099 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,099
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marker
Nearest frequency peer: marker (-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 « marqueterie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manquerez
manquerez
43,907 corpus weight
- maraudeurs
maraudeurs
43,906 corpus weight
- marker
marker
43,903 corpus weight
- marqueterie
marqueterie
43,902 corpus weight
- Marsupilami
Marsupilami
43,901 corpus weight
- mascherano
mascherano
43,900 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marqueterie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marqueterie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.kə.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,099 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marqueterie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marqueterie is uncommon French at frequency #56,099 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.kə.tʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for marqueterie, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is marqueterie, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-E-T-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Ouvrage de bois de diverses couleurs, appliqués par feuilles minces sur de la menuiserie, de manière à former des compartiments.
- 2Mosaïque faite de larges panneaux.
- 3Ouvrages de l’esprit composés de morceaux qui n’ont pas entre eux de liaison, ou de morceaux empruntés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marqueterie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La porte du pullman de queue, fermée à clef, s'ouvrit : superbement, admirablement vide, la voiture offrait à ses visiteurs impromptus le plus admirable décor de marqueterie en bois de rose — jaune citron et carmin pâle — qui se pût imaginer.
Marqueterie de marbre, Ouvrage de marbre de diverses couleurs, formé de lames minces appliquées sur une dalle de pierre.
This word in other languages
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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