MarekvsmûreConfusable pair

Quick tell: Marek is a name, mûre is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Marek” is a name and “mûre” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#38,913
“Marek” frequency rank
#22,950
“mûre” frequency rank
61863
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Marek mûre
Definition Marc. Fruit composé comestible des mûriers (Morus) de couleur d’abord blanchâtre, puis rouge et enfin noire à maturité. Il est composé de petites baies globuleuses formées par le périanthe devenu charnu et portant un petit akène qui est le vrai fruit, et accolées les unes aux autres en épi.

Letter map: Marek vs mûre

Shared letters muted; letters that set Marek and mûre apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
Marek
4 ch
mûre

Part-of-speech tell for Marek / mûre

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Marek is aname and mûreanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61863, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Marek is recorded at frequency rank #38,913, classified as aname. mûre is at rank #22,950, tagged as anoun, pronounced \myʁ\.

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 61863, this pair ranks #90,034 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of Marek vs mûre

Shared letters: emr. Private to "Marek": ak. Private to "mûre": û.

"Marek" · 5 letters · shape CVCVC  ·  "mûre" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Marekamrek · maerk · marekk · marke · marrek · mmarek · mraek

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "Marek" for "mûre" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Marek" is a name and "mûre" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "Marek" vs "mûre" - which ranks higher?
"mûre" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,950 in our French list, against #38,913 for "Marek". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "Marek" vs "mûre" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Marek" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "mûre" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #90,034 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Marek" and "mûre" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "magret vs Marek". 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 #90,034 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