Marquis
[maʁˈkiː]
The verdict
“Marquis” has 10 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #19,304. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,304
- frequency rank, German
- 3,571
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - französischer Adelstitel
Corpus desk
Index DE-marquis · Marquis · German
Marquis · rank #19,304 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,304
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,571
- PHOTO-FINISH mall
Nearest frequency peer: mall (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Marquis“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- Mahnmal
Mahnmal
80,699 corpus weight
- mall
mall
80,698 corpus weight
- Marquis
Marquis
80,697 corpus weight
- Masern
Masern
80,696 corpus weight
- mean
mean
80,695 corpus weight
- medizinisch…
medizinisches
80,694 corpus weight
What this shows „Marquis“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Marquis |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [maʁˈkiː] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,304 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Marquis“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Marquis (IPA [maʁˈkiː]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,304 among 3,571 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Marquis, with forms such as "amrquis", "maqruis", and "marqius". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "Marquise", "Markus", "Marcus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Marquis, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-I-S.
Definition
- 1französischer Adelstitel
- 2Träger des Adelstitels Marquis^([1])
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Marquis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dem Marquis entspricht im Deutschen der Markgraf, im Italienischen der Marchese und im Englischen der Marquess.
„Die Tür flog auf, und der Marquis im reichsten goldbordierten Galakleide stand im Zimmer.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrquis
- maqruis
- marqius
- marqquis
- marquiss
- marqusi
- marrquis
- maruqis
- mmarquis
- mraquis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Marquis - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Marquis", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).