Which to use
“maires” and “marée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,362
- “maires” frequency rank
- #8,269
- “marée” frequency rank
- 13631
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | maires | marée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de maire. | 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 maires and marée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. maires runs 6 letters (CVVCVC) against marée's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between maires and marée
A purely visual mix-up. maires (\mɛʁ\) 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 13631, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
maires is recorded at frequency rank #5,362, classified as anoun, pronounced \mɛʁ\. 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 13631, this pair ranks #400,213 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of maires vs marée
Shared letters: aemr. Private to "maires": is. Private to "marée": é.
"maires" · 6 letters · shape CVVCVC · "marée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- maires ← amires · maiers · mairess · mairres · mairse · maries · miares · mmaires
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "maires" and "marée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "maires" vs "marée" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "maires" 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 #400,213 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "maires" and "marée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "majorée vs marée". 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 #400,213 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.