mariage
\ma.ʁjaʒ\
The verdict
“mariage” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #741 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #741
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - 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.
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 | 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) |
Where “mariage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mariage is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for mariage, with forms such as "amriage", "mairage", and "maraige". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "marié", "Marine", "mariée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is mariage, spelled M-A-R-I-A-G-E.
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.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amriage,mairage,maraige,mariaeg,mariagge,marigae,mmariage,mraiage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of mariage - 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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Using “mariage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-R-I-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ma.ʁjaʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “marié” - see the side-by-side comparison. mariage vs marié
- 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.