marquage

\maʁ.kaʒ\

/\maʁ.kaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“marquage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,943. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,943
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait de marquer, ou résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-marquage · marquage · French

marquage · rank #16,943 · 11 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,943
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH margot

Nearest frequency peer: margot (-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 « marquage »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « marquage » 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).

marquage vs marqué
63% similar
marquage vs marquée
75% similar
marquage vs marquant
75% similar

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

Key facts for marquage
PropertyValue
Headwordmarquage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\maʁ.kaʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#16,943
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marquage »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).marquagese 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 « margot » (#16,942), « merdier » (#16,944), « manuelle » (#16,941). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « marquage » est au #16,943. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around marquage (IPA \maʁ.kaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,943 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for marquage, with forms such as "amrquage", "maqruage", and "marqauge". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "marqué", "marquée", "marquant", 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 easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is marquage, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fait de marquer, ou résultat de cette action.
  2. 2
    Introduction de nucléotides modifiés, ou modification chimique de certains nucléotides d’un acide nucléique afin de pouvoir le repérer.
  3. 3
    Expression matérielle de la signalisation fixe.
  4. 4
    Surveillance attentive et proche d’un membre de l'équipe adverse.
  5. 5
    Action de faire ressortir un élément graphique ou une partie de texte par modification de ses attributs visuels.
  6. 6
    En opérations navales, tâche qui est confiée à une unité navale et qui consiste à suivre les mouvements d’un mobile désigné.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Dans un autre, des piles de linge nouées d’une ficelle, des toiles plus ou moins écrues où apparaît, sur les bords de la broderie, le dessin du marquage au crayon bleu gras.
  2. Au total, 80 marquages seront effectués et deux caméras sous-marines installées pour les besoins de l’étude qui se déroulera sur 30 mois et comportera plusieurs volets (bibliographie, statistiques des attaque…

This word in other languages

highlighting(English)Markierung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amrquage
  • maqruage
  • marqauge
  • marqquage
  • marquaeg
  • marquagge
  • marqugae
  • marrquage
  • maruqage
  • mmarquage
  • mraquage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

amrquage2maqruage2marqauge2marqquage1marquaeg2marquagge1marqugae2marrquage1
Edit distance from "marquage"

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 "marquage"?
"marquage" is spelled M-A-R-Q-U-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \maʁ.kaʒ\.
What does "marquage" mean?
As a noun, "marquage" means: Fait de marquer, ou résultat de cette action.
What words are commonly confused with "marquage"?
"marquage" is commonly confused with "marqué", "marquée", "marquant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "marquage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marquage" is \maʁ.kaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "marquage" come from?
"marquage" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

manuelle#16,941Mireille#16,946obligent#16,957paternel#16,962

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

livrées11 variantsiraniens11 variantspénétré11 variantsinaperçu11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list