mariage

/\ma.ʁjaʒ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for mariage
PropertyValue
Headwordmariage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.ʁjaʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#741
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of mariage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Union d'une femme et d'un homme.
  3. 3
    Union (reconnue officiellement en tant que mariage) de deux personnes de sexe quelconque.
  4. 4
    Durée de cette union.
  5. 5
    Cérémonie civile ou religieuse qui scelle cette union.
  6. 6
    Union de deux choses qui se complètent plus ou moins bien.
  7. 7
    Assemblage 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.
  8. 8
    Dans 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.
  9. 9
    Main associant un roi et une dame de la même couleur, dans des jeux de cartes comme la brusquembille, la brisque ou le briscan.
  10. 10
    Variante 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"

amriage7mairage7maraige7mariaeg7mariagge8marigae7mmariage8mraiage7
Misspelling Variants of "mariage"

Frequency rank: #741 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "mariage"?
"mariage" is spelled M-A-R-I-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʁjaʒ\.
What does "mariage" mean?
As a noun, "mariage" 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.
What words are commonly confused with "mariage"?
"mariage" is commonly confused with "marié", "Marine", "mariée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "mariage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "mariage" is \ma.ʁjaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "mariage" come from?
"mariage" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.