marcel
\maʁ.sɛl\
The verdict
“marcel” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,250. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,250
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Débardeur, maillot de corps, tricot de peau qui découvre les épaules.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marcel · marcel · French
marcel · rank #4,250 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,250
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH légale
Nearest frequency peer: légale (-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 « marcel »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- lentement
lentement
95,754 corpus weight
- littéraleme…
littéralement
95,753 corpus weight
- légale
légale
95,752 corpus weight
- marcel
marcel
95,751 corpus weight
- Mary
Mary
95,750 corpus weight
- municipalité
municipalité
95,749 corpus weight
What this shows « marcel » 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 | marcel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marcel »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around marcel (IPA \maʁ.sɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,250 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Débardeur, maillot de corps, tricot de peau qui découvre les épaules.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for marcel, with forms such as "amrcel", "macrel", and "marccel". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mare", "marge", "marié", 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 marcel, spelled M-A-R-C-E-L.
Definition
- 1Débardeur, maillot de corps, tricot de peau qui découvre les épaules.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marcel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les mômes barbotaient dans les mares qu’on aurait dites laissées par le reflux, les bonshommes tapaient la belote dans un grand déballage de marcels, de bretelles et de ventres ronds. Ça sentait l’anis et la sueur, honnêtes parfums du travailleur en goguette.
Vanessa ignorait ce qu’était un string en V ou un tanga. Elle achetait ses sous-vêtements en coton Hanes Her Way et ses marcels chez Rite Aid et n’avait jamais mis un pied dans une boutique Victoria’s Secret.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrcel
- macrel
- marccel
- marcell
- marcle
- marecl
- marrcel
- mmarcel
- mracel
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marcel - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).