Marylin
The verdict
“Marylin” is uncommon French (frequency #65,296 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,296
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marylin · Marylin · French
Marylin · rank #65,296 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,296
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marmiton
Nearest frequency peer: marmiton (-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 « Marylin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- mangroves
mangroves
34,708 corpus weight
- Marcelino
Marcelino
34,707 corpus weight
- marmiton
marmiton
34,706 corpus weight
- Marylin
Marylin
34,705 corpus weight
- matata
matata
34,703 corpus weight
- Mathew
Mathew
34,702 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Marylin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marylin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,296 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Marylin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Marylin is uncommon French at frequency #65,296 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Marylin in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Marylin, spelled M-A-R-Y-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Marylin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Totalement crédible en Marylin Monroe, elle pourrait même décrocher un Oscar pour sa performance dans cette adaptation du best-seller de Joyce Caroll Oates.
J’ai toujours dit à Marylin [Fitoussi], notre costumière : « Elle s’est enfermée, parce qu’elle arrive de la plage de Saint-Tropez, pieds nus. »
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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