mahévsMarekTell them apart

Quick tell: mahé is a postp, Marek is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“mahé” is a postp and “Marek” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#44,035
“mahé” frequency rank
#38,913
“Marek” frequency rank
82948
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature mahé Marek
Definition Dans, dedans. Marc.

Letter map: mahé vs Marek

Shared letters muted; letters that set mahé and Marek apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. mahé runs 4 letters (CVCV) against Marek's 5 (CVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

4 ch
mahé
5 ch
Marek

Part-of-speech tell for mahé / Marek

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: mahé is apostp and Marekaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 82948, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

mahé is recorded at frequency rank #44,035, classified as apostp, pronounced \ma.ˈhe\. Marek is at rank #38,913, tagged as aname.

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 82948, this pair ranks #15,703 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of mahé vs Marek

Shared letters: am. Private to "mahé": hé. Private to "Marek": ekr.

"mahé" · 4 letters · shape CVCV  ·  "Marek" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Marek ← amrek · maerk · marekk · marke · marrek · mmarek · mraek

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "mahé" for "Marek" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "mahé" is a postp and "Marek" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "mahé" or "Marek"?
"Marek" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #38,913 in our French list, against #44,035 for "mahé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "mahé" and "Marek".

  • Full dictionary entry for "mahé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Marek" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #15,703 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "mahé" and "Marek" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mahé vs MWh". 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 #15,703 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list