marquant
\maʁ.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“marquant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,036. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,036
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui se fait remarquer par des caractères particuliers, en parlant des personnes ou des choses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marquant · marquant · French
marquant · rank #9,036 · 12 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,036
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marocaine
Nearest frequency peer: marocaine (-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 « marquant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- light
light
90,968 corpus weight
- marina
marina
90,967 corpus weight
- marocaine
marocaine
90,966 corpus weight
- marquant
marquant
90,965 corpus weight
- marseillais
marseillais
90,964 corpus weight
- mathématique
mathématique
90,963 corpus weight
What this shows « marquant » 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 | marquant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \maʁ.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marquant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around marquant (IPA \maʁ.kɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #9,036 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 marquant, with forms such as "amrquant", "maqruant", and "marqaunt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "marrant", "moquant", "marquent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is marquant, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui se fait remarquer par des caractères particuliers, en parlant des personnes ou des choses.
- 2Qualifie, à certains jeux, les cartes qui valent des points à celui qui les a.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marquant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D'ailleurs, ce qui est particulier à la politique de l’histoire sainte, c'est que, chaque fois qu'un personnage marquant fait quelque chose de mal, c'est toujours le pauvre peuple qui écope.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrquant
- maqruant
- marqaunt
- marqquant
- marquannt
- marquantt
- marquatn
- marqunat
- marrquant
- maruqant
- mmarquant
- mraquant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marquant - 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 "marquant", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).