Which to use
“marées” and “marques” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,413
- “marées” frequency rank
- #2,838
- “marques” frequency rank
- 19251
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | marées | marques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de marée. | Pluriel de marque. |
Where the eye mixes marées and marques
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: marées vs marques
A purely visual mix-up. marées (\ma.ʁe\) and marques (\maʁk\) 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 19251, 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\. marques is at rank #2,838, tagged as anoun, pronounced \maʁk\.
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 19251, this pair ranks #374,189 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of marées vs marques
Shared letters: aemrs. Private to "marées": é. Private to "marques": qu.
"marées" · 6 letters · shape CVCVVC · "marques" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- marques ← amrques · maqrues · marqeus · marqques · marquess · marquse · marrques · maruqes
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "marées" and "marques" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "marées" or "marques" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "marées" and "marques" 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 "marques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #374,189 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "marées" and "marques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "manies vs marées". 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 #374,189 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.