mare
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,992
in French word usage
Misspellings
3
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mare is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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. Pronounced \mɑʁ\. Often confused with me and MR.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mare is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,992 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 3 documented wrong-spelling variants for mare, with forms such as "marre", "mmare", and "mrae". 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, "me", "MR", "mer", 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 mare, spelled M-A-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: marre,mmare,mrae
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mare
Misspelling Variants of "mare"
Frequency rank: #11,992 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter M in our French index: