marceau
\maʁ.so\
The verdict
“marceau” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,590. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,590
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de marsault.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marceau · marceau · French
marceau · rank #19,590 · 9 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,590
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH malines
Nearest frequency peer: malines (-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 « marceau »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maligne
maligne
80,413 corpus weight
- malines
malines
80,412 corpus weight
- marceau
marceau
80,411 corpus weight
- marient
marient
80,410 corpus weight
- marquez
marquez
80,409 corpus weight
- martiale
martiale
80,408 corpus weight
What this shows « marceau » 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 | marceau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.so\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,590 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marceau »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around marceau (IPA \maʁ.so\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,590 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante de marsault.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for marceau, with forms such as "amrceau", "macreau", and "marcaeu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "marcel", "moreau", "marcia", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is marceau, spelled M-A-R-C-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Variante de marsault.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrceau
- macreau
- marcaeu
- marcceau
- marceua
- marecau
- marrceau
- mmarceau
- mraceau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marceau - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "marceau", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).