marécage
\ma.ʁe.kaʒ\
The verdict
“marécage” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,395. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,395
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étendue de terre saturée d'eau pendant la plus grande partie de l'année, et dont la surface du sol n'est généralement recouverte que d'une faible profondeur d'eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marecage · marécage · French
marécage · rank #39,395 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,395
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marshal
Nearest frequency peer: marshal (-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 « marécage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Manuela
Manuela
60,609 corpus weight
- mariant
mariant
60,608 corpus weight
- marshal
marshal
60,607 corpus weight
- marécage
marécage
60,606 corpus weight
- matraquage
matraquage
60,605 corpus weight
- maîtrisez
maîtrisez
60,603 corpus weight
What this shows « marécage » 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 | marécage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁe.kaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #39,395 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marécage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around marécage (IPA \ma.ʁe.kaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,395 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for marécage, with forms such as "amrécage", "marcéage", and "marecage". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "mariage", "marquage", "marriage", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is marécage, spelled M-A-R-É-C-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Étendue de terre saturée d'eau pendant la plus grande partie de l'année, et dont la surface du sol n'est généralement recouverte que d'une faible profondeur d'eau.
- 2Endroit malsain ; chose malsaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marécage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le désert solognot se confirme et semble se complaire dans son isolement comme au temps où marécages et autres humidités l'écartaient du reste du monde.
Tout ce pays-là n'est qu'un grand marécage. — Les oiseaux aquatiques se plaisent dans les marécages.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrécage
- marcéage
- marecage
- marrécage
- maréacge
- marécaeg
- marécagge
- maréccage
- marécgae
- maércage
- mmarécage
- mraécage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marécage - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).