marron glacé
The verdict
“marron glacé” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Confiserie constituée d’un marron longuement confit dans un sirop de sucre et glacé au sucre glace.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marron glacé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁɔ̃ ɡla.se\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marron glacé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for marron glacé is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʁɔ̃ ɡla.se\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Confiserie constituée d’un marron longuement confit dans un sirop de sucre et glacé au sucre glace.".
No misspelling variants are generated for marron glacé in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 marron glacé, spelled M-A-R-R-O-N- -G-L-A-C-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Confiserie constituée d’un marron longuement confit dans un sirop de sucre et glacé au sucre glace.
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Using “marron glacé”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-R-R-O-N- -G-L-A-C-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ma.ʁɔ̃ ɡla.se\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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