marguerite
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,848
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
marguerite is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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... Pronounced \maʁ.ɡə.ʁit\. It ranks #6,848 in French word frequency. Often confused with marguerites.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for marguerite is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for marguerite, with forms such as "amrguerite", "magruerite", and "margeurite". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "marguerites", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is marguerite, spelled M-A-R-G-U-E-R-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amrguerite,magruerite,margeurite,margguerite,margueirte,margueriet,margueritte,marguerrite,marguertie,margureite,marrguerite,marugerite,mmarguerite,mraguerite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for marguerite
Misspelling Variants of "marguerite"
Frequency rank: #6,848 in French
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