marqueur

Name: marqueur, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\maʁ.kœʁ\

/\maʁ.kœʁ\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“marqueur” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,631. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,631
frequency rank, French: 5,038
“M” headwords: 11
tracked misspellings: 13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui marque.

Corpus desk

Index FR-marqueur · marqueur · French

marqueur · rank #13,631 · 11 variants · 13 confusables

FREQ-MID #13,631
LEN-LONG 8 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
VAR-MID 11 variants
BOOK-DENSE 5,038
PHOTO-FINISH manquera

Nearest frequency peer: manquera (-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.

larme

86,373
Manitoba

86,372
manquera

86,371
marqueur

86,370
menacent

86,369
meute

86,368

What this shows « marqueur » 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).

marqueur vs masquer

75% similar

marqueur vs marquez

75% similar

marqueur vs moqueur

75% similar

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

Key facts for marqueur
Property	Value
Headword	marqueur
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\maʁ.kœʁ\
Letters	8
Frequency rank	#13,631
Misspellings tracked	11
Confusable pairs	13
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marqueur »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).marqueurse place ici:

#13,631

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « manquera » (#13,630), « menacent » (#13,632), « Manitoba » (#13,629). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « marqueur » est au #13,631. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around marqueur (IPA \maʁ.kœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,631 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for marqueur, with forms such as "amrqueur", "maqrueur", and "marqeuur". 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, "masquer", "marquez", "moqueur", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is marqueur, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-E-U-R.

Definition

1
Celui qui marque.
2
Personne qui marque et compte les points de chaque joueur.
3
Jeton servant à garder la marque des points.
4
Au paintball, élément mécanique ou électronique ayant l’aspect d’une arme à feu individuelle servant à propulser les billes grâce au gaz (CO₂ ou air comprimé) contenu dans une bouteille.
5
Stylo-feutre permettant principalement une grande taille d’écriture ou le surlignage.
6
Élément caractéristique qui confirme ou infirme une hypothèse lors d'un test ou d’une analyse.
7
Morphème ou construction qui indique une fonction grammaticale.
8
Objet qui laisse une trace d’un événement passé.
9
Élément caractéristique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

Un marqueur de cuirs, de moutons.
Une marqueuse de draps.

Synonyms

lanceur feutre compteur indicateur marque

This word in other languages

marker(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

amrqueur
maqrueur
marqeuur
marqqueur
marqueru
marqueurr
marquuer
marrqueur
maruqeur
mmarqueur
mraqueur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

Edit distance from "marqueur"

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 "marqueur"?

"marqueur" is spelled M-A-R-Q-U-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \maʁ.kœʁ\.

What does "marqueur" mean?

As a noun, "marqueur" means: Celui qui marque.

What words are commonly confused with "marqueur"?

"marqueur" is commonly confused with "masquer", "marquez", "moqueur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "marqueur"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marqueur" is \maʁ.kœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "marqueur" come from?

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

manquera#13,630 menacent#13,632 Manitoba#13,629 inédites#13,621

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

mutuelles11 variants orientée11 variants passaient11 variants plaisait11 variants