marines

\ma.ʁin\

/\ma.ʁin\/ adj

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The verdict

“marines” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,861. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,861
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de marin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-marines · marines · French

marines · rank #7,861 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,861
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH made

Nearest frequency peer: made (-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 « marines »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « marines » 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).

marines vs mines
71% similar
marines vs marne
71% similar
marines vs maris
71% similar

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

Key facts for marines
PropertyValue
Headwordmarines
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ma.ʁin\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,861
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marines »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.marinesse 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 « made » (#7,860), « Martinique » (#7,862), « légendes » (#7,859). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « marines » est au #7,861. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around marines (IPA \ma.ʁin\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,861 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de marin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for marines, with forms such as "amrines", "mairnes", and "mariens". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mines", "marne", "maris", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is marines, spelled M-A-R-I-N-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de marin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Et encore, Sarah Samadi en est persuadée : « 90 % des espèces marines restent encore à découvrir ».

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amrines
  • mairnes
  • mariens
  • mariness
  • marinnes
  • marinse
  • marnies
  • marrines
  • mmarines
  • mraines

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marines - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

amrines2mairnes2mariens2mariness1marinnes1marinse2marnies2marrines1
Edit distance from "marines"

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 "marines"?
"marines" is spelled M-A-R-I-N-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʁin\.
What does "marines" mean?
As an adjective, "marines" means: Féminin pluriel de marin.
What words are commonly confused with "marines"?
"marines" is commonly confused with "mines", "marne", "maris". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "marines"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marines" is \ma.ʁin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "marines" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Mercure#7,865limoges#7,856notaire#7,872pelouse#7,878

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

horloge10 variantsgênant10 variantsrejoins10 variantsfournis10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list