marv
\ˈmɑː.ro\
The verdict
“marv” is uncommon French (frequency #80,407 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,407
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marv · marv · French
marv · rank #80,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,407
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marsupiaux
Nearest frequency peer: marsupiaux (-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 « marv »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- meester
meester
19,588 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marv » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marv |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈmɑː.ro\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marv » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marv is uncommon French at frequency #80,407 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈmɑː.ro\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for marv in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is marv, spelled M-A-R-V.
Definition
- 1Mort.
- 2Éteint(e) (en parlant d’un feu, d’une lumière).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marv appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eun den maro.
An dud varo.
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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