Which to use
“marécage” and “marécages” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #39,395
- “marécage” frequency rank
- #32,479
- “marécages” frequency rank
- 71874
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | marécage | marécages |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Étendue de terre saturée d'eau pendant la plus grande partie de l'année, et dont la surface du sol n'est généralement recouverte que d'une faible profondeur d'eau. | Pluriel de marécage. |
Same sound, different letters: marécage vs marécages
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. marécage runs 8 letters (CVCVCVCV) against marécages's 9 (CVCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - marécage and marécages
This is the hard kind. marécage and marécages are pronounced identically (\ma.ʁe.kaʒ\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “marécage” sits inside “marécages”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71874, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
marécage is recorded at frequency rank #39,395, classified as anoun, pronounced \ma.ʁe.kaʒ\. marécages is at rank #32,479, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ma.ʁe.kaʒ\.
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 71874, this pair ranks #45,977 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of marécage vs marécages
Shared letters: acegmré. Private to "marécage": -. Private to "marécages": s.
"marécage" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV · "marécages" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCVCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "marécage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "marécages" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #45,977 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "marécage" and "marécages" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "marécage vs marécageux". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #45,977 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.