Marmande
\maʁ.mɑ̃d\
The verdict
“Marmande” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,164. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,164
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marmande · Marmande · French
Marmande · rank #45,164 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,164
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marginalisés
Nearest frequency peer: marginalisés (-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 « Marmande »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maoïste
maoïste
54,840 corpus weight
- maquilleuse
maquilleuse
54,839 corpus weight
- marginalisés
marginalisés
54,838 corpus weight
- Marmande
Marmande
54,837 corpus weight
- marteler
marteler
54,836 corpus weight
- matheux
matheux
54,835 corpus weight
What this shows « Marmande » 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 | Marmande |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.mɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #45,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Marmande »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Marmande (IPA \maʁ.mɑ̃d\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #45,164 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Marmande, with forms such as "amrmande", "mamrande", and "maramnde". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "marrante", "Marianne", "marchande", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Marmande, spelled M-A-R-M-A-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Lot-et-Garonne.
- 2Petite rivière de France, affluent du Cher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Marmande appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Que diriez-vous d’une belle tranche de jambon de Bayonne avec une salade de tomates de Marmande et des asperges du Blayais, puis un magret des Landes et, pour finir, une barquette de fraises du Périgord ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrmande
- mamrande
- maramnde
- marmadne
- marmandde
- marmaned
- marmannde
- marmmande
- marmnade
- marrmande
- mmarmande
- mramande
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Marmande - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).