Marsa
\maʁ.sa\
The verdict
“Marsa” is uncommon French (frequency #62,435 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,435
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marsa · Marsa · French
Marsa · rank #62,435 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,435
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marquaient
Nearest frequency peer: marquaient (-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 « Marsa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Mariannes
Mariannes
37,569 corpus weight
- marquages
marquages
37,568 corpus weight
- marquaient
marquaient
37,567 corpus weight
- Marsa
Marsa
37,566 corpus weight
- masure
masure
37,565 corpus weight
- Matha
Matha
37,564 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Marsa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marsa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.sa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #62,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Marsa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Marsa is uncommon French at frequency #62,435 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \maʁ.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Marsa in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Marsa, spelled M-A-R-S-A.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de l’Aude.
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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