Which to use
“marbre” and “marée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,109
- “marbre” frequency rank
- #8,269
- “marée” frequency rank
- 14378
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | marbre | marée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Toute pierre susceptible d'être polie | 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 marbre and marée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. marbre runs 6 letters (CVCCCV) against marée's 5 (CVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between marbre and marée
A purely visual mix-up. marbre (\maʁbʁ\) 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 14378, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
marbre is recorded at frequency rank #6,109, classified as anoun, pronounced \maʁbʁ\. 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 14378, this pair ranks #396,944 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of marbre vs marée
Shared letters: aemr. Private to "marbre": b. Private to "marée": é.
"marbre" · 6 letters · shape CVCCCV · "marée" · 5 letters · shape CVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- marbre ← amrbre · mabrre · marbbre · marber · marbrre · marrbe · marrbre · mmarbre
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "marbre" and "marée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "marbre" or "marée" show up more?
After this comparison
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "marbre" 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 #396,944 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "marbre" 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 #396,944 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.