mariage
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#741
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
mariage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Union de deux personnes reconnue de façon officielle par la loi ou les règles en vigueur localement, dans le but de s’unir à vie en formant un couple. Pronounced \ma.ʁjaʒ\. It ranks #741 in French word frequency. Often confused with marié and Marine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mariage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁjaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mariage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʁjaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #741 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for mariage, with forms such as "amriage", "mairage", and "maraige". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "marié", "Marine", "mariée", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is mariage, spelled M-A-R-I-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Union de deux personnes reconnue de façon officielle par la loi ou les règles en vigueur localement, dans le but de s’unir à vie en formant un couple.
- 2Union d'une femme et d'un homme.
- 3Union (reconnue officiellement en tant que mariage) de deux personnes de sexe quelconque.
- 4Durée de cette union.
- 5Cérémonie civile ou religieuse qui scelle cette union.
- 6Union de deux choses qui se complètent plus ou moins bien.
- 7Assemblage de plusieurs bandes de marbre ou de plusieurs carreaux que l'on scelle bout à bout sur une dalle, pour, d'un même trait de scie, en faire la division.
- 8Dans une filature, doublement des fils, notamment lors de la rupture de l'un d'eux, et souvent lors du dévidage des cocons de ver à soie.
- 9Main associant un roi et une dame de la même couleur, dans des jeux de cartes comme la brusquembille, la brisque ou le briscan.
- 10Variante de la brisque.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amriage,mairage,maraige,mariaeg,mariagge,marigae,mmariage,mraiage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for mariage
Misspelling Variants of "mariage"
Frequency rank: #741 in French
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