marbre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,109
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
marbre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Toute pierre susceptible d'être polie Pronounced \maʁbʁ\. It ranks #6,109 in French word frequency. Often confused with mare and marge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marbre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁbʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,109 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for marbre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \maʁbʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,109 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 15 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for marbre, with forms such as "amrbre", "mabrre", and "marbbre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mare", "marge", "marié", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is marbre, spelled M-A-R-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Toute pierre susceptible d'être polie
- 2Roche métamorphique dérivant d’un calcaire ou d’une dolomie sédimentaire ayant été transformée généralement par métamorphisme régional ou plus rarement par métamorphisme de contact.
- 3Morceau de ce minéral taillé et poli.
- 4Ouvrages de marbre et des échantillons de différents marbres.
- 5Table de pierre ou de métal sur laquelle on pose les pages, pour les imposer, et les formes, pour les corriger.
- 6Partie de la presse sur laquelle on place la forme.
- 7Table de pierre utilisée comme surface de manipulation et de refroidissement.
- 8Atelier de composition.
- 9Support enregistré d’une émission prête à être diffusée.
- 10Pierre qui sert à broyer les drogues et les couleurs.
- 11Chacune des juridictions de la connétablie, de l’amirauté et des eaux et forêts.
- 12Articles composés et mis en réserve, pour paraître le moment venu.
- 13La quatrième des quatre bases à laquelle les joueurs de baseball doivent toucher pour marquer un point.
- 14Surface plane destinée à vérifier la géométrie d’un véhicule
- 15Plaque très plate servant à contrôler la planéité d'autres surfaces.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amrbre,mabrre,marbbre,marber,marbrre,marrbe,marrbre,mmarbre,mrabre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for marbre
Misspelling Variants of "marbre"
Frequency rank: #6,109 in French
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Nearby French words
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