marraines
\ma.ʁɛn\
The verdict
“marraines” is uncommon French (frequency #58,748 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,748
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de marraine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marraines · marraines · French
marraines · rank #58,748 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,748
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maquereaux
Nearest frequency peer: maquereaux (-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 « marraines »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maniant
maniant
41,255 corpus weight
- maquereaux
maquereaux
41,254 corpus weight
- marraines
marraines
41,253 corpus weight
- marseillais…
marseillaises
41,252 corpus weight
- Maryline
Maryline
41,251 corpus weight
- Masha
Masha
41,250 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marraines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marraines |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,748 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marraines » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marraines is uncommon French at frequency #58,748 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ma.ʁɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de marraine.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for marraines in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is marraines, spelled M-A-R-R-A-I-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de marraine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marraines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les marraines, les parrains sont les parents spirituels.
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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