Marivaux
\ma.ʁi.vo\
The verdict
“Marivaux” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,145. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,145
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom français, rendu célèbre par un écrivain français du XVIIIᵉ siècle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marivaux · Marivaux · French
Marivaux · rank #35,145 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,145
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marginales
Nearest frequency peer: marginales (-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 « Marivaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- manèges
manèges
64,860 corpus weight
- Marcellin
Marcellin
64,858 corpus weight
- marginales
marginales
64,857 corpus weight
- Marivaux
Marivaux
64,856 corpus weight
- maroquinerie
maroquinerie
64,855 corpus weight
- mau
mau
64,852 corpus weight
What this shows « Marivaux » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | Marivaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁi.vo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,145 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Marivaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Marivaux (IPA \ma.ʁi.vo\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #35,145 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom français, rendu célèbre par un écrivain français du XVIIIᵉ siècle.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Marivaux, with forms such as "amrivaux", "mairvaux", and "mariavux". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "martiaux", "marteaux", "Margaux", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Marivaux, spelled M-A-R-I-V-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Nom français, rendu célèbre par un écrivain français du XVIIIᵉ siècle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Marivaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jean de l’Isle Marivaux (Marivaux ou Marivaut), mourut quelques heures après ce combat, il étoit frere de Claude de l’Isle Marivaux, qui se distingua dans la bataille d’Yvry et qui fut fait Chevalier des Ordres du Roi, en 1595.
Ainsi Marivaux se retrouve-t-il sans le sou et obligé de gagner sa vie par le roman et le théâtre, pour notre plus grand bien !
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrivaux
- mairvaux
- mariavux
- marivauxx
- marivaxu
- marivuax
- marivvaux
- marrivaux
- marviaux
- mmarivaux
- mraivaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Marivaux - 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.
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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