marengo
\ma.ʁɑ̃.ɡo\
The verdict
“marengo” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,209. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,209
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie un poulet préparé avec du pain, de l’huile, des tomates, de l’ail, des œufs et des écrevisses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marengo · marengo · French
marengo · rank #49,209 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,209
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Marcoussis
Nearest frequency peer: Marcoussis (-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 « marengo »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mangerai
mangerai
50,796 corpus weight
- maniaques
maniaques
50,795 corpus weight
- Marcoussis
Marcoussis
50,793 corpus weight
- marengo
marengo
50,792 corpus weight
- mariera
mariera
50,791 corpus weight
- masquant
masquant
50,789 corpus weight
What this shows « marengo » 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 | marengo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ma.ʁɑ̃.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marengo »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around marengo (IPA \ma.ʁɑ̃.ɡo\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,209 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for marengo, with forms such as "amrengo", "maerngo", and "maregno". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "margo", "moreno", "marino", 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. The correct French form is marengo, spelled M-A-R-E-N-G-O.
Definition
- 1Qualifie un poulet préparé avec du pain, de l’huile, des tomates, de l’ail, des œufs et des écrevisses.
- 2Qualifie une sauce préparée avec du vin blanc, de l’eau et de la farine.
- 3De couleur brune mêlée de petits points blancs semblables à de la poussière.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marengo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le poulet marengo est un mets qui, selon la légende, aurait été créé par le cuisinier Dunan, le 14 juin 1800 – jour de la Bataille de Marengo –, avec ce qu’il avait sous la main.
J’ai déjà fait sauter des crêpes, des pommes de terre, et même du veau marengo, mais je n’aurais jamais fait sauter cette eau !!
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrengo
- maerngo
- maregno
- marenggo
- marenngo
- marenog
- marnego
- marrengo
- mmarengo
- mraengo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marengo - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).