marijuana
\ma.ʁi.ʒwa.na\
The verdict
“marijuana” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #15,933 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #15,933
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mélange à fumer composé avec les feuilles et les fleurs femelles séchées du cannabis.
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 | marijuana |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁi.ʒwa.na\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marijuana” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for marijuana is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʁi.ʒwa.na\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,933 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mélange à fumer composé avec les feuilles et les fleurs femelles séchées du cannabis.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for marijuana, with forms such as "amrijuana", "mairjuana", and "marijauna". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Mariana", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is marijuana, spelled M-A-R-I-J-U-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Mélange à fumer composé avec les feuilles et les fleurs femelles séchées du cannabis.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amrijuana,mairjuana,marijauna,marijjuana,marijuaan,marijuanna,marijunaa,mariujana,marjiuana,marrijuana,mmarijuana,mraijuana
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marijuana - 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 “marijuana”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-R-I-J-U-A-N-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ma.ʁi.ʒwa.na\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Mariana” - see the side-by-side comparison. marijuana vs Mariana
- 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.