manipvsmariéWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: manip is a noun, marié is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“manip” is a noun and “marié” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,483
“manip” frequency rank
#3,937
“marié” frequency rank
40420
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature manip marié
Definition Opération. Qui s’est marié ; qui a un époux ou une épouse.

Where the eye mixes manip and marié

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence.

5 ch
manip
5 ch
marié

Visual trap between manip and marié

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: manip is \ma.nip\ while marié is \ma.ʁje\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40420, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

manip is recorded at frequency rank #36,483, classified as anoun, pronounced \ma.nip\. marié is at rank #3,937, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ma.ʁje\.

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 40420, this pair ranks #240,647 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of manip vs marié

Shared letters: aim. Private to "manip": np. Private to "marié": .

"manip" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "marié" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • manipamnip · mainp · manipp · mannip · manpi · mmanip · mnaip

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "manip" and "marié" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "manip" is a noun and "marié" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "manip" or "marié"?
"marié" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,937 in our French list, against #36,483 for "manip". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "manip" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "marié" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #240,647 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "manip" and "marié" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "maid vs manip". 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 #240,647 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