martre
\maʁtʁ\
The verdict
“martre” is uncommon French (frequency #60,946 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,946
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de petit quadrupède carnassier au pelage fin et recherché, appartenant à la famille des mustélidés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-martre · martre · French
martre · rank #60,946 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,946
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Massimiliano
Nearest frequency peer: Massimiliano (+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 « martre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manqueras
manqueras
39,059 corpus weight
- margherita
margherita
39,058 corpus weight
- martre
martre
39,055 corpus weight
- Massimiliano
Massimiliano
39,054 corpus weight
- mastère
mastère
39,053 corpus weight
- matinaux
matinaux
39,051 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « martre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | martre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁtʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « martre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
martre is uncommon French at frequency #60,946 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for martre, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 martre, spelled M-A-R-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de petit quadrupède carnassier au pelage fin et recherché, appartenant à la famille des mustélidés.
- 2Fourrure de cet animal.
- 3Poils de cette fourrure, utilisés en particulier pour certains pinceaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how martre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le chat-pêcheur, la martre et le vison abondaient le long du torrent mais n’étaient point dangereux.
Il piège principalement les renards, les coyotes, les martres, les visons, les castors et les loutres depuis 40 ans.
This word in other languages
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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