# mar vs Marne

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### mar
*verb · IPA /mɑː(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #5,233*
To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.

### Marne
*name · IPA /mɑɹn/ · frequency rank #49,480*
A right tributary of the Seine, in eastern France, flowing 319 miles east and southeast of Paris through the departments of Haute-Marne, Marne, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis and Val-de-Marne.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-02.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mar-vs-marne