marais
"marais" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“marais” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #41,753. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,753
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A marsh; a marshy area, one intermittently covered with water, particularly in Louisiana, or in other French-speaking areas.
Corpus desk
Index EN-marais · marais · English
marais · rank #41,753 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,753
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Marbella
Nearest frequency peer: Marbella (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “marais”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- majorly
majorly
58,252 corpus weight
- Malian
Malian
58,251 corpus weight
- marais
marais
58,248 corpus weight
- Marbella
Marbella
58,247 corpus weight
- marquise
marquise
58,245 corpus weight
- mastectomy
mastectomy
58,244 corpus weight
What this shows “marais” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the 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 | marais |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “marais”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around marais, anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,753 among 4,057 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A marsh; a marshy area, one intermittently covered with water, particularly in Louisiana, or in other French-speaking areas.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for marais, with forms such as "amrais", "maaris", and "maraiss". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mars", "Mari", "marks", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French marais (and in Louisiana, Louisiana French marais). The correct English form is marais, spelled M-A-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1A marsh; a marshy area, one intermittently covered with water, particularly in Louisiana, or in other French-speaking areas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] and as all along the sea-coast, at least in those parts where I have resided, there has always been a vast extent of marais, or marsh, which has been bien communal, the poorer classes experienced no obstacle to their living in this manner. And no porte d'arme is required.
[…] and when rains filled the maraises, and the cold nor'westers blew from Texas and the sod was spongy with much water, and he went out for feathered game, the numberless mallards, black ducks, gray ducks, teal - […]
Etymology
Borrowed from French marais (and in Louisiana, Louisiana French marais).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrais
- maaris
- maraiss
- marasi
- marias
- marrais
- mmarais
- mraais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marais - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).