married
\ˈmæɹ.ɪd\
The verdict
“married” is uncommon French (frequency #71,687 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,687
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marié.
Corpus desk
Index FR-married · married · French
married · rank #71,687 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,687
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Marinette
Nearest frequency peer: Marinette (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « married »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- manageur
manageur
28,318 corpus weight
- Marcella
Marcella
28,316 corpus weight
- Marinette
Marinette
28,315 corpus weight
- married
married
28,314 corpus weight
- Marsha
Marsha
28,313 corpus weight
- massues
massues
28,312 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « married » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | married |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈmæɹ.ɪd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,687 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « married » en français
Rare enough to double-check
married is uncommon French at frequency #71,687 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈmæɹ.ɪd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for married in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is married, spelled M-A-R-R-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Marié.
- 2Conjugal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how married appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Is he married or single?" "Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a-year. What a fine thing for our girls!"
They then settled down to married life.
Antonyms
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.
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