marteaux

\maʁ.to\

/\maʁ.to\/ noun

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The verdict

“marteaux” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,645. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,645
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de marteau.

Corpus desk

Index FR-marteaux · marteaux · French

marteaux · rank #28,645 · 11 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,645
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH marquantes

Nearest frequency peer: marquantes (-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 « marteaux »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « marteaux » 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).

marteaux vs morceaux
75% similar
marteaux vs martiaux
88% similar
marteaux vs manteau
75% similar

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

Key facts for marteaux
PropertyValue
Headwordmarteaux
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\maʁ.to\
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,645
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marteaux »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.marteauxse 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 « marquantes » (#28,644), « matrices » (#28,646), « mano » (#28,643). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « marteaux » est au #28,645. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around marteaux (IPA \maʁ.to\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,645 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de marteau.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for marteaux, with forms such as "amrteaux", "maretaux", and "marrteaux". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "morceaux", "martiaux", "manteau", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is marteaux, spelled M-A-R-T-E-A-U-X.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de marteau.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Brave vieille sacoche bourrée de marteaux, pinces multiprises de force et burette métal aspergeante remplie d’huile de moteur.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • amrteaux
  • maretaux
  • marrteaux
  • martaeux
  • marteauxx
  • marteaxu
  • marteuax
  • martteaux
  • matreaux
  • mmarteaux
  • mrateaux

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marteaux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

amrteaux2maretaux2marrteaux1martaeux2marteauxx1marteaxu2marteuax2martteaux1
Edit distance from "marteaux"

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 "marteaux"?
"marteaux" is spelled M-A-R-T-E-A-U-X. The IPA pronunciation is \maʁ.to\.
What does "marteaux" mean?
As a noun, "marteaux" means: Pluriel de marteau.
What words are commonly confused with "marteaux"?
"marteaux" is commonly confused with "morceaux", "martiaux", "manteau". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "marteaux"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marteaux" is \maʁ.to\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "marteaux" come from?
"marteaux" 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 "marteaux", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

matrices#28,646medicine#28,648Majorque#28,641machette#28,639

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

lunaires11 variantslittéral11 variantsnuisance11 variantsouragans11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list