marraine
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,435
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
marraine is aFrenchnoun. It 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... Pronounced \ma.ʁɛn\. Often confused with marrant and martine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marraine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ma.ʁɛn\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for marraine is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ma.ʁɛn\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,435 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for marraine, with forms such as "amrraine", "maraine", and "mararine". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "marrant", "martine", "migraine", 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 marraine, spelled M-A-R-R-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Celle 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.
- 2Mère du parrain.
- 3Celle qui, lors de l’inauguration d’une cloche ou d’un navire, lui donne un nom.
- 4Ville qui apporte un soutien moral et financier à une ville ou un village détruit par la guerre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: amrraine,maraine,mararine,marraien,marrainne,marranie,marriane,mmarraine,mraraine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for marraine
Misspelling Variants of "marraine"
Frequency rank: #15,435 in French
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