marquants
\maʁ.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“marquants” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,068. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,068
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de marquant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marquants · marquants · French
marquants · rank #19,068 · 14 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,068
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH massacrés
Nearest frequency peer: massacrés (+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 « marquants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Mamadou
Mamadou
80,936 corpus weight
- mangeait
mangeait
80,935 corpus weight
- marquants
marquants
80,933 corpus weight
- massacrés
massacrés
80,932 corpus weight
- maternelles
maternelles
80,931 corpus weight
- mitigé
mitigé
80,930 corpus weight
What this shows « marquants » 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 | marquants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \maʁ.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marquants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around marquants (IPA \maʁ.kɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,068 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de marquant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for marquants, with forms such as "amrquants", "maqruants", and "marqaunts". 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, "marquent", "marrants", "masquant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is marquants, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de marquant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marquants appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Contrairement aux idées reçues, ce ne sont pas les profs « cools » qui sont les plus marquants : « les élèves apprécient les enseignants exigeants, mais qui reconnaissent aussi les efforts », indique Pascal Hostachy.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrquants
- maqruants
- marqaunts
- marqquants
- marquannts
- marquanst
- marquantss
- marquantts
- marquatns
- marqunats
- marrquants
- maruqants
- mmarquants
- mraquants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marquants - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).