mardi

/\maʁ.di\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,568

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

mardi is aFrenchnoun. It means: Deuxième jour de la semaine, qui suit le lundi et précède le mercredi. Pronounced \maʁ.di\. It ranks #1,568 in French word frequency. Often confused with mars and midi.

Key facts for mardi
PropertyValue
Headwordmardi
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\maʁ.di\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,568
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mardi in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for mardi is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \maʁ.di\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,568 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Deuxième jour de la semaine, qui suit le lundi et précède le mercredi.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for mardi, with forms such as "amrdi", "madri", and "marddi". 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, "mars", "midi", "mari", 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 mardi, spelled M-A-R-D-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième jour de la semaine, qui suit le lundi et précède le mercredi.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amrdi,madri,marddi,marid,marrdi,mmardi,mradi

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mardi

Misspelling Variants of "mardi"

amrdi5madri5marddi6marid5marrdi6mmardi6mradi5
Misspelling Variants of "mardi"

Frequency rank: #1,568 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mardi"?
"mardi" is spelled M-A-R-D-I. The IPA pronunciation is \maʁ.di\.
What does "mardi" mean?
As a noun, "mardi" means: Deuxième jour de la semaine, qui suit le lundi et précède le mercredi.
What words are commonly confused with "mardi"?
"mardi" is commonly confused with "mars", "midi", "mari". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mardi"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mardi" is \maʁ.di\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mardi" come from?
"mardi" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.