marqua
\maʁ.ka\
The verdict
“marqua” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,434. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,434
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de marquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marqua · marqua · French
marqua · rank #29,434 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,434
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Marjorie
Nearest frequency peer: Marjorie (-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 « marqua »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Mantoue
Mantoue
70,569 corpus weight
- Marjorie
Marjorie
70,568 corpus weight
- marqua
marqua
70,567 corpus weight
- martien
martien
70,566 corpus weight
- martins
martins
70,565 corpus weight
- Maxim
Maxim
70,564 corpus weight
What this shows « marqua » 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 | marqua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \maʁ.ka\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,434 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marqua »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around marqua (IPA \maʁ.ka\), averb. Corpus frequency is #29,434 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de marquer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for marqua, with forms such as "amrqua", "maqrua", and "marqau". 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, "marta", "marqué", "masque", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 marqua, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de marquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marqua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Celle-ci entra en correspondance avec la Corsin, se chargea des achats, marqua, broda, festonna elle-même, fit plus d’une fois, comme on dit, bon marché de sa poche, se permit nombre de fantaisies, de bonnets, de rubans, de petits cols, de chemisettes, etc., se maternisa enfin tant et si bien, qu’un jour, Prochasson en prit de l’humeur et reprocha à sa fe…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrqua
- maqrua
- marqau
- marqqua
- marrqua
- maruqa
- mmarqua
- mraqua
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marqua - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "marqua", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).