Which to use
“marées” and “marnes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,413
- “marées” frequency rank
- #41,401
- “marnes” frequency rank
- 57814
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | marées | marnes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de marée. | Pluriel de marne. |
Where the eye mixes marées and marnes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. marées (CVCVVC) and marnes (CVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Visual trap between marées and marnes
A purely visual mix-up. marées (\ma.ʁe\) and marnes (\maʁn\) 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 a single letter - é in “marées” becomes n in “marnes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57814, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
marées is recorded at frequency rank #16,413, classified as anoun, pronounced \ma.ʁe\. marnes is at rank #41,401, tagged as anoun, pronounced \maʁn\.
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 57814, this pair ranks #112,799 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of marées vs marnes
Shared letters: aemrs. Private to "marées": é. Private to "marnes": n.
"marées" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC · "marnes" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- marnes ← amrnes · manres · marens · marness · marnnes · marnse · marrnes · mmarnes
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "marées" for "marnes" ever safe?
Frequency check: "marées" vs "marnes" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "marées" and "marnes" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "marées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "marnes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #112,799 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "marées" and "marnes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "mane vs marnes". 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 #112,799 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.