marée
French, noun/ma.ʁe/
marée is spelled M-A-R-É-E (5 letters) and appears 7.6 times per million words in written French, the 8,212th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Marée is a French feminine noun meaning “tide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variation périodique du niveau de la mer, due principalement à l’action gravitationnelle de la Lune et du…”.
What does marée mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetide
marée basse et marée haute
- 2
femininecatch (of fish)
comme marée en carême
- 3
femininewave (anything that forms a great crowd)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variation périodique du niveau de la mer, due principalement à l’action gravitationnelle de la Lune et du Soleil, se manifestant par l’alternance de la pleine mer et de la basse mer. 2. Sortie, campagne ou durée de pêche en mer. 3. Arrivage de poisson de mer qui n’est pas salé. 4. Affluence plus ou moins importante de quelque chose ; flots, eaux, vagues, humains, animaux, etc.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of marée
- marées plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce marée?
- /ma.ʁe/
- \ma.ʁe\
- [yn ma.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to marée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is marée in French?
marée appears 7.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).