marié

\ma.ʁje\

/\ma.ʁje\/ adj

The verdict

“marié” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,937. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,937
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s’est marié ; qui a un époux ou une épouse.

Corpus desk

Index FR-marie · marié · French

marié · rank #3,937 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,937
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH marin

Nearest frequency peer: marin (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « marié »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « marié » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

marié vs mie
40% similar
marié vs Mère
20% similar
marié vs mars
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for marié
PropertyValue
Headwordmarié
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ma.ʁje\
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,937
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marié »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.mariése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « marin » (#3,936), « masque » (#3,938), « lion » (#3,935). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « marié » est au #3,937. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around marié (IPA \ma.ʁje\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,937 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui s’est marié ; qui a un époux ou une épouse.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for marié, with forms such as "amrié", "mairé", and "marrié". 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, "mie", "Mère", "mars", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is marié, spelled M-A-R-I-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui s’est marié ; qui a un époux ou une épouse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how marié appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je ne suis pas mariée. Oui je suis demoiselle, et pourtant cet enfant, cet enfant, c’est à moi.
  2. Désormais, pour continuer de se voir, il faut aux amants user de subterfuges. Après tout, il est prêtre, elle est mariée, tous deux savent ou devraient savoir que cela finira mal.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amrié
  • mairé
  • marrié
  • maréi
  • mmarié
  • mraié

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marié - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

amrié2mairé2marrié1maréi2mmarié1mraié2
Edit distance from "marié"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "marié"?
"marié" is spelled M-A-R-I-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʁje\.
What does "marié" mean?
As an adjective, "marié" means: Qui s’est marié ; qui a un époux ou une épouse.
What words are commonly confused with "marié"?
"marié" is commonly confused with "mie", "Mère", "mars". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "marié"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marié" is \ma.ʁje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "marié" come from?
"marié" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "marié", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list