marquait
\maʁ.kɛ\
The verdict
“marquait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,669. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,669
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de marquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marquait · marquait · French
marquait · rank #24,669 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,669
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Matrix
Nearest frequency peer: Matrix (+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 « marquait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- malus
malus
75,335 corpus weight
- manille
manille
75,334 corpus weight
- marquait
marquait
75,332 corpus weight
- Matrix
Matrix
75,331 corpus weight
- meneurs
meneurs
75,330 corpus weight
- menuisier
menuisier
75,329 corpus weight
What this shows « marquait » 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 | marquait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \maʁ.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,669 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marquait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around marquait (IPA \maʁ.kɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,669 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de marquer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for marquait, with forms such as "amrquait", "maqruait", and "marqauit". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "marquis", "moquait", "marquant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 marquait, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de marquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marquait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On doit mentionner également une source froide, la source Sainte-Marguerite qui, thermométrée le 3 septembre par une température atmosphérique de 19° 5, marquait 13 °.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrquait
- maqruait
- marqauit
- marqquait
- marquaitt
- marquati
- marquiat
- marrquait
- maruqait
- mmarquait
- mraquait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marquait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "marquait", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (11 here; floor ≥5).