marcotte
\maʁ.kɔt\
The verdict
“marcotte” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,442. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,442
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Branche enterrée (naturellement ou artificiellement), sans la détacher de la plante, pour qu’elle prenne racine, et qu'on sèvre ensuite, en la détachant lorsqu’elle a des racines.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marcotte · marcotte · French
marcotte · rank #47,442 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,442
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH mane
Nearest frequency peer: mane (-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 « marcotte »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Malaysia
Malaysia
52,562 corpus weight
- malsains
malsains
52,561 corpus weight
- mane
mane
52,560 corpus weight
- marcotte
marcotte
52,559 corpus weight
- Marcy
Marcy
52,558 corpus weight
- marini
marini
52,557 corpus weight
What this shows « marcotte » 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 | marcotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.kɔt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #47,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marcotte »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around marcotte (IPA \maʁ.kɔt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,442 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Branche enterrée (naturellement ou artificiellement), sans la détacher de la plante, pour qu’elle prenne racine, et qu'on sèvre ensuite, en la détachant lorsqu’elle a des racines.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for marcotte, with forms such as "amrcotte", "macrotte", and "marccotte". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Mayotte", "mascotte", "marmotte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is marcotte, spelled M-A-R-C-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Branche enterrée (naturellement ou artificiellement), sans la détacher de la plante, pour qu’elle prenne racine, et qu'on sèvre ensuite, en la détachant lorsqu’elle a des racines.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marcotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La reproduction par semis, même sous cloche, est très-difficile et très-lente à notre climat; la propagation par marcottes, et surtout par éclats, est de beaucoup préférable.
Le marcottage consiste à provoquer, en un point déterminé du rameau, la formation de racines adventives capables d'alimenter la marcotte, qu’on sèvre ensuite, en la séparant du pied mère.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrcotte
- macrotte
- marccotte
- marcote
- marcotet
- marctote
- maroctte
- marrcotte
- mmarcotte
- mracotte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marcotte - 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
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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 (10 here; floor ≥5).