mariage de convenance
The verdict
“mariage de convenance” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Mariage conclu pour des raisons financières ou patrimoniales.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mariage de convenance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁjaʒ də kɔ̃v.nɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mariage de convenance” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mariage de convenance is 21 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʁjaʒ də kɔ̃v.nɑ̃s\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mariage conclu pour des raisons financières ou patrimoniales.".
No misspelling variants are generated for mariage de convenance in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 de convenance, spelled M-A-R-I-A-G-E- -D-E- -C-O-N-V-E-N-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mariage conclu pour des raisons financières ou patrimoniales.
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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- -D-E- -C-O-N-V-E-N-A-N-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ma.ʁjaʒ də kɔ̃v.nɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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