mar
The verdict
“mar” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,735) as an adverb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,735
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mal, malheureusement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mar · mar · French
mar · rank #8,735 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,735
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manuscrits
Nearest frequency peer: manuscrits (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mar »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- luke
luke
91,269 corpus weight
- maigre
maigre
91,268 corpus weight
- manuscrits
manuscrits
91,267 corpus weight
- mar
mar
91,266 corpus weight
- marchandise
marchandise
91,265 corpus weight
- menton
menton
91,264 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mar » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | mar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,735 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mar »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mar is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "mm", …), not just typos; it is anadverb. Frequency #8,735 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for mar in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "me", "mm", "mi", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is mar, spelled M-A-R.
Definition
- 1Mal, malheureusement.
- 2Suivi du futur, il correspond à l’impératif négatif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
tant mare fustes, ber!
Il dist al rei: ja mar crerez Marsilie.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "mar", not the corpus desk frequency band.