marguerite
\maʁ.ɡə.ʁit\
The verdict
“marguerite” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #6,848 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #6,848
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Stricto sensu, nom vernaculaire des plantes herbacées vivaces du genre Leucanthemum, de la famille des Asteraceae (Astéracées), originaire d’Eurasie et dont l’inflorescence est un grand capitule co...
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 | marguerite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.ɡə.ʁit\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #6,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marguerite” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for marguerite is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \maʁ.ɡə.ʁit\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,848 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for marguerite, with forms such as "amrguerite", "magruerite", and "margeurite". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "marguerites", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is marguerite, spelled M-A-R-G-U-E-R-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Stricto sensu, nom vernaculaire des plantes herbacées vivaces du genre Leucanthemum, de la famille des Asteraceae (Astéracées), originaire d’Eurasie et dont l’inflorescence est un grand capitule composé d’une couronne de ligules blanches autour d'un disque jaune.
- 2Nom donné à plusieurs plantes de la famille des Astéracées dont l'aspect général est le même que celui de Leucanthemum. → voir Leucanthemopsis ; → voir Callistephus ; → voir Bellis ; etc.
- 3Son capitule jaune et blanc.
- 4Ustensile de cuisine qui permet de cuire à la vapeur. Il s'agit d'un panier généralement en inox, repliable et formé de pièces articulées évoquant la fleur éponyme. On place ce panier au dessous d'un source de vapeur comme par exemple une casserole pleine d'eau en ébullition.
- 5Support de polices de caractères qui équipe certaines machines à écrire ou imprimantes.
- 6Pièce de bois ayant un coté en arc de cercle recouvert de cannelure transversales ou recouverte de liège pour procéder autrefois au margueritage du cuir.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amrguerite,magruerite,margeurite,margguerite,margueirte,margueriet,margueritte,marguerrite,marguertie,margureite,marrguerite,marugerite,mmarguerite,mraguerite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marguerite - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “marguerite”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-R-G-U-E-R-I-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \maʁ.ɡə.ʁit\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “marguerites” - see the side-by-side comparison. marguerite vs marguerites
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.