married

\ˈmæɹ.ɪd\

/\ˈmæɹ.ɪd\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « married » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for married
PropertyValue
Headwordmarried
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ˈmæɹ.ɪd\
Letters7
Frequency rank#71,687
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « married » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.marriedtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Marinette » (#71,686), « Marsha » (#71,688), « Marcella » (#71,685). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « married » est au #71,687. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Marié.
  2. 2
    Conjugal.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. "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!"
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "married"?
"married" is spelled M-A-R-R-I-E-D. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈmæɹ.ɪd\.
What does "married" mean?
As an adjective, "married" means: Marié.
How do you pronounce "married"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "married" is \ˈmæɹ.ɪd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "married" come from?
"married" 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 "married", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list