marraine

\ma.ʁɛn\

/\ma.ʁɛn\/ noun

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The verdict

“marraine” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,435. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,435
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui avec le parrain, présente un enfant (le filleul) aux fonts baptismaux (mère spirituelle d’un enfant) ou assiste l’enfant de manière analogue dans une cérémonie civile ou d’une autre relig...

Corpus desk

Index FR-marraine · marraine · French

marraine · rank #15,435 · 9 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,435
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH maquette

Nearest frequency peer: maquette (-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 « marraine »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « marraine » 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).

marraine vs marrant
75% similar
marraine vs martine
75% similar
marraine vs migraine
75% similar

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

Key facts for marraine
PropertyValue
Headwordmarraine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ma.ʁɛn\
Letters8
Frequency rank#15,435
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marraine »

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

#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 « maquette » (#15,434), « Mayenne » (#15,436), « malik » (#15,433). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « marraine » est au #15,435. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around marraine (IPA \ma.ʁɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,435 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for marraine, with forms such as "amrraine", "maraine", and "mararine". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "marrant", "martine", "migraine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is marraine, spelled M-A-R-R-A-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui avec le parrain, présente un enfant (le filleul) aux fonts baptismaux (mère spirituelle d’un enfant) ou assiste l’enfant de manière analogue dans une cérémonie civile ou d’une autre religion ou conviction.
  2. 2
    Mère du parrain.
  3. 3
    Celle qui, lors de l’inauguration d’une cloche ou d’un navire, lui donne un nom.
  4. 4
    Ville qui apporte un soutien moral et financier à une ville ou un village détruit par la guerre.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Rémy avait, au Petit-Villemongin, une marraine, la mère Barbou, qui n’avait pas volé son nom. Elle était épicière ambulante et passait dans les villages avec sa voiture à grande bâche, où pendillait je ne sais tout quoi.
  2. Le parrain et la marraine s’engagent à soutenir l’enfant en toute circonstance et à respecter sa liberté individuelle dans ses choix futurs.

This word in other languages

godmother(English)madrina(Español)Taufpatin(Deutsch)madrinha(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amrraine
  • maraine
  • mararine
  • marraien
  • marrainne
  • marranie
  • marriane
  • mmarraine
  • mraraine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marraine - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

amrraine2maraine1mararine2marraien2marrainne1marranie2marriane2mmarraine1
Edit distance from "marraine"

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 "marraine"?
"marraine" is spelled M-A-R-R-A-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ma.ʁɛn\.
What does "marraine" mean?
As a noun, "marraine" means: Celle qui avec le parrain, présente un enfant (le filleul) aux fonts baptismaux (mère spirituelle d’un enfant) ou assiste l’enfant de manière analogue dans une cérémonie civile ou d’une autre relig...
What words are commonly confused with "marraine"?
"marraine" is commonly confused with "marrant", "martine", "migraine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "marraine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marraine" is \ma.ʁɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "marraine" come from?
"marraine" 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 "marraine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

maquette#15,434malgache#15,432membrane#15,439minières#15,445

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

occupera9 variantsorlando9 variantsoutrage9 variantspognon9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list