marginal
\maʁ.ʒi.nal\
The verdict
“marginal” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,762. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,762
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est situé dans la marge d’un texte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marginal · marginal · French
marginal · rank #17,762 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,762
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH maltraitance
Nearest frequency peer: maltraitance (-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 « marginal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Lévesque
Lévesque
82,242 corpus weight
- magnétiques
magnétiques
82,241 corpus weight
- maltraitance
maltraitance
82,240 corpus weight
- marginal
marginal
82,239 corpus weight
- marionnette
marionnette
82,238 corpus weight
- marqueurs
marqueurs
82,237 corpus weight
What this shows « marginal » 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 | marginal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \maʁ.ʒi.nal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marginal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around marginal (IPA \maʁ.ʒi.nal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,762 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for marginal, with forms such as "amrginal", "magrinal", and "margginal". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "marina", "martial", "matinal", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is marginal, spelled M-A-R-G-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui est situé dans la marge d’un texte.
- 2Qui est à l’écart de la société, de l’opinion commune.
- 3D’une faible quantité, très minoritaire.
- 4Relatif à la marge anale.
- 5Qui se situe en bordure d'un organe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marginal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les notes marginales des manuscrits ont souvent passé dans le texte.
Je vous présente seulement quelques-unes des notes marginales qu’on trouvera, après ma mort, crayonnées dans mon exemplaire de Tite-Live.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrginal
- magrinal
- margginal
- margianl
- marginall
- marginla
- marginnal
- margnial
- marignal
- marrginal
- mmarginal
- mraginal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marginal - 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).