marquise

/\maʁ.kiz\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#16,412

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

marquise is aFrenchnoun. It means: Épouse ou veuve d’un marquis. Pronounced \maʁ.kiz\. Often confused with marquises and marqué.

Key facts for marquise
PropertyValue
Headwordmarquise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\maʁ.kiz\
Letters8
Frequency rank#16,412
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of marquise in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for marquise is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \maʁ.kiz\. Corpus data places it at rank #16,412 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for marquise, with forms such as "amrquise", "maqruise", and "marqiuse". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "marquises", "marqué", "maquis", 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 marquise, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-I-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Épouse ou veuve d’un marquis.
  2. 2
    Femme détenant un marquisat.
  3. 3
    Bague à chaton allongé couvrant une phalange.
  4. 4
    Tenderolle.
  5. 5
    Auvent en toile de grandes dimensions, notamment posée au-dessus de l’entrée d’une tente d’officier.
  6. 6
    Auvent, généralement vitré, placé au-dessus du quai d’embarquement dans une gare, au-dessus de l’entrée d’un édifice public ou d’une maison particulière.
  7. 7
    Se dit de plusieurs entremets ou desserts, dont des desserts au chocolat.
  8. 8
    Boisson à base de vin blanc ou de vin de Champagne avec addition d’eau de Seltz et de jus de citron, présentée dans une grande coupe.
  9. 9
    Large fauteuil ressemblant à une bergère.
  10. 10
    Zoom s’effectuant par cliquer-glisser à la souris et délimitant dans la carte la zone (généralement rectangulaire) sur laquelle zoomer. Variante : le dézoom en marquise.
  11. 11
    Sorte d’ombrelle.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amrquise,maqruise,marqiuse,marqquise,marquies,marquisse,marqusie,marrquise,maruqise,mmarquise,mraquise

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for marquise

Misspelling Variants of "marquise"

amrquise8maqruise8marqiuse8marqquise9marquies8marquisse9marqusie8marrquise9
Misspelling Variants of "marquise"

Frequency rank: #16,412 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "marquise"?
"marquise" is spelled M-A-R-Q-U-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \maʁ.kiz\.
What does "marquise" mean?
As a noun, "marquise" means: Épouse ou veuve d’un marquis.
What words are commonly confused with "marquise"?
"marquise" is commonly confused with "marquises", "marqué", "maquis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "marquise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marquise" is \maʁ.kiz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "marquise" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.