Marx
\maʁks\
The verdict
“Marx” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,126. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,126
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille, surtout connu via Karl Marx.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marx · Marx · French
Marx · rank #8,126 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,126
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Mans
Nearest frequency peer: Mans (-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 « Marx »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- légalement
légalement
91,878 corpus weight
- magnétique
magnétique
91,877 corpus weight
- Mans
Mans
91,876 corpus weight
- Marx
Marx
91,875 corpus weight
- menti
menti
91,874 corpus weight
- monnaies
monnaies
91,873 corpus weight
What this shows « Marx » 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 | Marx |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \maʁks\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,126 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Marx »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around Marx (IPA \maʁks\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #8,126 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for Marx, with forms such as "amrx", "marrx", and "marxx". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "MR", "Mx", "mer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Marx, spelled M-A-R-X.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille, surtout connu via Karl Marx.
- 2Karl Marx, philosophe, économiste, historien, sociologue, journaliste et communiste prussien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Marx appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les fruits de mer sont donc des aliments de choix pour les seniors. Ils font partie, avec les poissons, du régime « pescétarien », « régime varié et facile à adopter pour toute la famille », notent le Dʳ Alexandra Dalu, spécialiste en nutrition, et Thierry Marx, chef cuisinier, dans leur livre L’assiette santé.
Les Springboks ajoutaient alors trois nouveaux essais par Malcolm Marx (42e), Bongi Mbonambi (59e) et Kwagga Smith (67e).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrx
- marrx
- marxx
- maxr
- mmarx
- mrax
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Marx - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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