marathon
\ma.ʁa.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“marathon” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,629. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,629
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Indique une tâche ou un évènement long et éreintant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marathon · marathon · French
marathon · rank #6,629 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #6,629
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH légitimité
Nearest frequency peer: légitimité (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « marathon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- littéraires
littéraires
93,375 corpus weight
- luis
luis
93,374 corpus weight
- légitimité
légitimité
93,373 corpus weight
- marathon
marathon
93,372 corpus weight
- marco
marco
93,371 corpus weight
- mettait
mettait
93,370 corpus weight
What this shows « marathon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | marathon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ʁa.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,629 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marathon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around marathon (IPA \ma.ʁa.tɔ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,629 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Indique une tâche ou un évènement long et éreintant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for marathon, with forms such as "amrathon", "maarthon", and "marahton". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "marathons", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is marathon, spelled M-A-R-A-T-H-O-N.
Definition
- 1Indique une tâche ou un évènement long et éreintant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marathon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au terme de deux semaines de discussion ponctuées par des séances marathon de négociations de dernière minute et au delà, la Conférence sur le climat de Doha au Qatar a finalement abouti à un accord.
Le grand débat national s'est ouvert avec une première réunion marathon. Pendant près de sept heures, mardi 15 janvier, Emmanuel Macron a répondu sans interruption aux interrogations de 600 maires normands […].
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrathon
- maarthon
- marahton
- marathhon
- marathno
- marathonn
- maratohn
- maratthon
- marrathon
- martahon
- mmarathon
- mraathon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marathon - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).