Which to use
“magret” and “marée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #49,201
- “magret” frequency rank
- #8,269
- “marée” frequency rank
- 57470
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | magret | marée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Filet de viande maigre découpé à partir de la poitrine d’une oie ou d’un canard gras. | Mouvement d’ondulation de la surface de la mer, provoquant une baisse et une hausse de son niveau sur un rythme journalier ou semi-journalier selon les régions du globe. |
Where the eye mixes magret and marée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. magret runs 6 letters (CVCCVC) against marée's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: magret vs marée
A purely visual mix-up. magret (\ma.ɡʁɛ\) and marée (\ma.ʁe\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57470, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
magret is recorded at frequency rank #49,201, classified as anoun, pronounced \ma.ɡʁɛ\. marée is at rank #8,269, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ma.ʁe\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 57470, this pair ranks #114,845 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of magret vs marée
Shared letters: aemr. Private to "magret": gt. Private to "marée": é.
"magret" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "marée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- magret ← amgret · magert · maggret · magrett · magrret · magrte · marget · mgaret
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "magret" and "marée" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "magret" or "marée"?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "magret" and "marée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "magret" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "marée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #114,845 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "magret" and "marée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "magret vs maigret". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #114,845 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.