martien
\maʁ.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“martien” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,435. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,435
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’influence de Mars.
Corpus desk
Index FR-martien · martien · French
martien · rank #29,435 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,435
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH marqua
Nearest frequency peer: marqua (-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 « martien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Mantoue
Mantoue
70,569 corpus weight
- Marjorie
Marjorie
70,568 corpus weight
- marqua
marqua
70,567 corpus weight
- martien
martien
70,566 corpus weight
- martins
martins
70,565 corpus weight
- Maxim
Maxim
70,564 corpus weight
What this shows « martien » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | martien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \maʁ.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #29,435 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « martien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around martien (IPA \maʁ.sjɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,435 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 martien, with forms such as "amrtien", "mariten", and "marrtien". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "matin", "martin", "Marvin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented 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 martien, spelled M-A-R-T-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’influence de Mars.
- 2Relatif à la planète Mars.
- 3Qui ressemble à la planète Mars.
- 4Dont l’apparence évoque une origine bizarre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how martien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par ces caractères on voit donc que la femme du type martien pur n’a à peu près rien de féminin : ce type, heureusement rare, serait l’expression complète de la virago. […] Ainsi, sans un peu de l’Influence martienne, tout homme serait réduit à l’impuissance et manquerait de ressort dans la vie.
Il est largement admis que Mars a possédé dans le passé de l'eau en abondance sous forme liquide, avec des lacs et des rivières. …. Mais selon une nouvelle étude publiée dans la revue Science Advances par deux chercheurs britanniques de l'Open University, une partie de cette eau s'évapore encore, sous forme d'hydrogène s'échappant de l'atmosphère martienne.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrtien
- mariten
- marrtien
- martein
- martienn
- marttien
- matrien
- mmartien
- mratien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of martien - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).