marquer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,778
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
marquer is aFrenchverb. It means: Distinguer une chose d’une autre au moyen d’une marque. Pronounced \maʁ.ke\. It ranks #3,778 in French word frequency. Often confused with masque and moquer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \maʁ.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for marquer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \maʁ.ke\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,778 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for marquer, with forms such as "amrquer", "maqruer", and "marqeur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "masque", "moquer", "marrer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is marquer, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Distinguer une chose d’une autre au moyen d’une marque.
- 2Imprimer, avec un fer chaud, un signe flétrissant sur l’épaule de l’homme qui est condamné à cette peine.
- 3Faire une marque, une impression sur quelque partie du corps, par contusion, blessure, brûlure, etc.
- 4Garder une trace, une empreinte des contacts reçus.
- 5Dénoter, indiquer ou signaler en laissant des traces.
- 6Indiquer ; montrer.
- 7Mettre une marque pour se souvenir ou faire souvenir.
- 8Avoir sur l'adversaire l’avantage d’un nombre quelconque de points, d’après le calcul des points obtenus de part et d’autre dans les deux coups qui font le pari.
- 9Mander, indiquer, faire connaître, soit oralement, soit par écrit.
- 10Inscrire, écrire.
- 11Établir ou améliorer un score.
- 12Indiquer l'heure en parlant d'un cadran solaire.
- 13Être remarqué.
- 14Indiquer l’intention qu’il faudrait cacher.
- 15Se faire remarquer
- 16Attirer l’attention.
- 17Faire une impression bonne, mais surtout mauvaise.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amrquer,maqruer,marqeur,marqquer,marquerr,marqure,marrquer,maruqer,mmarquer,mraquer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for marquer
Misspelling Variants of "marquer"
Frequency rank: #3,778 in French
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