Marsupilami
\maʁ.sy.pi.la.mi\
The verdict
“Marsupilami” is uncommon French (frequency #56,100 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,100
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Animal imaginaire jaune à points noirs ayant une longue queue préhensile créé par André Franquin en 1952.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marsupilami · Marsupilami · French
Marsupilami · rank #56,100 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,100
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marqueterie
Nearest frequency peer: marqueterie (-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 « Marsupilami »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maraudeurs
maraudeurs
43,906 corpus weight
- marker
marker
43,903 corpus weight
- marqueterie
marqueterie
43,902 corpus weight
- Marsupilami
Marsupilami
43,901 corpus weight
- mascherano
mascherano
43,900 corpus weight
- MCC
MCC
43,897 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Marsupilami » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marsupilami |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.sy.pi.la.mi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #56,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Marsupilami » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Marsupilami is uncommon French at frequency #56,100 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \maʁ.sy.pi.la.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Animal imaginaire jaune à points noirs ayant une longue queue préhensile créé par André Franquin en 1952.".
Marsupilami has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Marsupilami, spelled M-A-R-S-U-P-I-L-A-M-I.
Definition
- 1Animal imaginaire jaune à points noirs ayant une longue queue préhensile créé par André Franquin en 1952.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Marsupilami appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est dans « Spirou et les héritiers » que le Marsupilami apparaît pour la première fois.
[…] on mâchouille des chewing-gums au cours, on balance le sac à main nonchalamment, on asticote les garçons et l’on collectionne les marsupilami et les poupées de Peynet.
Antonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).