mare
\mɑʁ\
The verdict
“mare” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #11,992) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #11,992
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit amas d’eau dormante qui se forme naturellement par l’abaissement du sol, ou qu’on produit artificiellement dans les villages et dans les fermes, pour des usages communs ou domestiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mare · mare · French
mare · rank #11,992 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,992
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH lentilles
Nearest frequency peer: lentilles (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « mare »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Joan
Joan
88,012 corpus weight
- lacunes
lacunes
88,011 corpus weight
- lentilles
lentilles
88,010 corpus weight
- mare
mare
88,009 corpus weight
- Marseillaise
Marseillaise
88,008 corpus weight
- math
math
88,007 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « mare » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | mare |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,992 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « mare »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for mare is neighbouring look-alikes ("me", "MR", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \mɑʁ\. Frequency #11,992 among 5,038 “M” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for mare, with forms such as "marre", "mmare", and "mrae". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "me", "MR", "mer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is mare, spelled M-A-R-E.
Definition
- 1Petit amas d’eau dormante qui se forme naturellement par l’abaissement du sol, ou qu’on produit artificiellement dans les villages et dans les fermes, pour des usages communs ou domestiques.
- 2Grande quantité de liquide répandu.
- 3Zone fixe et morne constituée par un fluide quelconque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how mare appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une large dépression herbeuse, avec une mare et un groupe de figuiers au centre.
J’ai vu les oies de neige éclairer, au crépuscule, les bords des mares.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- marre
- mmare
- mrae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mare - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).