martelée
\maʁ.tə.le\
The verdict
“martelée” is uncommon French (frequency #92,978 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,978
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de marteler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-martelee · martelée · French
martelée · rank #92,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,978
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marmonner
Nearest frequency peer: marmonner (-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 « martelée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- maras
maras
7,029 corpus weight
- marcherons
marcherons
7,028 corpus weight
- marmonner
marmonner
7,024 corpus weight
- martelée
martelée
7,023 corpus weight
- masquage
masquage
7,020 corpus weight
- matante
matante
7,018 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « martelée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | martelée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \maʁ.tə.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « martelée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
martelée is uncommon French at frequency #92,978 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \maʁ.tə.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de marteler.".
martelée has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 martelée, spelled M-A-R-T-E-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de marteler.
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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