marquent

\maʁk\

/\maʁk\/ verb

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The verdict

“marquent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,417. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,417
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de marquer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-marquent · marquent · French

marquent · rank #12,417 · 12 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,417
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH marchant

Nearest frequency peer: marchant (-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 « marquent »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « marquent » 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).

marquent vs marques
75% similar
marquent vs marquer
75% similar
marquent vs moquent
75% similar

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

Key facts for marquent
PropertyValue
Headwordmarquent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\maʁk\
Letters8
Frequency rank#12,417
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marquent »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.marquentse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « marchant » (#12,416), « marquées » (#12,418), « légèreté » (#12,415). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « marquent » est au #12,417. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around marquent (IPA \maʁk\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,417 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 marquent, with forms such as "amrquent", "maqruent", and "marqeunt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "marques", "marquer", "moquent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is marquent, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de marquer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de marquer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Les hommes d’Igor Tudor se relancent totalement dans cette Ligue des champions et marquent leurs premiers points.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amrquent
  • maqruent
  • marqeunt
  • marqquent
  • marquennt
  • marquentt
  • marquetn
  • marqunet
  • marrquent
  • maruqent
  • mmarquent
  • mraquent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

amrquent2maqruent2marqeunt2marqquent1marquennt1marquentt1marquetn2marqunet2
Edit distance from "marquent"

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 "marquent"?
"marquent" is spelled M-A-R-Q-U-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \maʁk\.
What does "marquent" mean?
As a verb, "marquent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de marquer.
What words are commonly confused with "marquent"?
"marquent" is commonly confused with "marques", "marquer", "moquent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "marquent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marquent" is \maʁk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "marquent" come from?
"marquent" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

marchant#12,416marquées#12,418légèreté#12,415logiques#12,413

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

messagerie12 variantsmoyennant12 variantsmultiple12 variantsKinshasa12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list