marsupiaux
\maʁ.sy.pjo\
The verdict
“marsupiaux” is uncommon French (frequency #80,406 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,406
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quadrupèdes mammifères, dont les femelles ont sous le ventre un sac ou grand repli de la peau, appelé marsupium, qui renferme les mamelles et où les petits sont réunis après leur naissance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marsupiaux · marsupiaux · French
marsupiaux · rank #80,406 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,406
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marv
Nearest frequency peer: marv (+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 « marsupiaux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Manceaux
Manceaux
19,602 corpus weight
- manipulables
manipulables
19,600 corpus weight
- Mariama
Mariama
19,598 corpus weight
- Marjane
Marjane
19,597 corpus weight
- marsupiaux
marsupiaux
19,595 corpus weight
- marv
marv
19,594 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marsupiaux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marsupiaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.sy.pjo\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marsupiaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marsupiaux is uncommon French at frequency #80,406 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.sy.pjo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quadrupèdes mammifères, dont les femelles ont sous le ventre un sac ou grand repli de la peau, appelé marsupium, qui renferme les mamelles et où les petits sont réunis après leur naissance.".
Zero misspellings are on record for marsupiaux in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 marsupiaux, spelled M-A-R-S-U-P-I-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Quadrupèdes mammifères, dont les femelles ont sous le ventre un sac ou grand repli de la peau, appelé marsupium, qui renferme les mamelles et où les petits sont réunis après leur naissance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marsupiaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les marsupiaux vivent tous en Australie, en Tasmanie ou en Nouvelle-Guinée, à l’exception des opossums et des caénolestidés qui vivent en Amérique.
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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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