marseillaises
\maʁ.sɛ.jɛz\
The verdict
“marseillaises” is uncommon French (frequency #58,749 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,749
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de marseillais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marseillaises · marseillaises · French
marseillaises · rank #58,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,749
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marraines
Nearest frequency peer: marraines (-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 « marseillaises »
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 « marseillaises » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marseillaises |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \maʁ.sɛ.jɛz\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #58,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marseillaises » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marseillaises is uncommon French at frequency #58,749 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \maʁ.sɛ.jɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de marseillais.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for marseillaises in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is marseillaises, spelled M-A-R-S-E-I-L-L-A-I-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de marseillais.
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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