Marylise
\ma.ʁi.liz\
The verdict
“Marylise” is uncommon French (frequency #97,144 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,144
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marylise · Marylise · French
Marylise · rank #97,144 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,144
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH martelage
Nearest frequency peer: martelage (-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 « Marylise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Marienbad
Marienbad
2,860 corpus weight
- marinus
marinus
2,859 corpus weight
- martelage
martelage
2,858 corpus weight
- Marylise
Marylise
2,857 corpus weight
- matriarcale
matriarcale
2,854 corpus weight
- Matterhorn
Matterhorn
2,853 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Marylise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marylise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁi.liz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,144 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Marylise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Marylise is uncommon French at frequency #97,144 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ma.ʁi.liz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Marylise, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 Marylise, spelled M-A-R-Y-L-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Marylise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La suspension de la réforme Borne – vieille demande de la CFDT – ayant ouvert la voie aux discussions budgétaires, Marylise Léon, la secrétaire générale du premier syndicat de France se dit opposée au gel des minima sociaux et favorable à la taxe Zucman.
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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