marsouins
\maʁ.swɛ̃\
The verdict
“marsouins” is uncommon French (frequency #68,450 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,450
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de marsouin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marsouins · marsouins · French
marsouins · rank #68,450 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,450
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marquèrent
Nearest frequency peer: marquèrent (-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 « marsouins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manipulable
manipulable
31,555 corpus weight
- marignan
marignan
31,554 corpus weight
- marquèrent
marquèrent
31,552 corpus weight
- marsouins
marsouins
31,551 corpus weight
- martingale
martingale
31,550 corpus weight
- masa
masa
31,549 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marsouins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marsouins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.swɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,450 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marsouins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marsouins is uncommon French at frequency #68,450 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.swɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de marsouin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for marsouins, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is marsouins, spelled M-A-R-S-O-U-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de marsouin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marsouins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jérôme, à la hauteur de Spartivento, avait remis le cap à l’Est, et les marsouins avaient accueilli le cargo à l’orée de la mer Ionienne.
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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