Which to use
“marquante” and “marquantes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #29,854
- “marquante” frequency rank
- #28,644
- “marquantes” frequency rank
- 58498
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | marquante | marquantes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de marquant. | Féminin pluriel de marquant. |
Same sound, different letters: marquante vs marquantes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. marquante runs 9 letters (CVCCVVCCV) against marquantes's 10 (CVCCVVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - marquante and marquantes
This is the hard kind. marquante and marquantes are pronounced identically (\maʁ.kɑ̃t\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “marquante” sits inside “marquantes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 58498, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
marquante is recorded at frequency rank #29,854, classified as anadj, pronounced \maʁ.kɑ̃t\. marquantes is at rank #28,644, tagged as anadj, pronounced \maʁ.kɑ̃t\.
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 58498, this pair ranks #108,715 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of marquante vs marquantes
Shared letters: aemnqrtu. Private to "marquante": -. Private to "marquantes": s.
"marquante" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVVCCV · "marquantes" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- marquante ← amrquante · maqruante · marqaunte · marqquante · marquanet · marquannte · marquantte · marquatne
- marquantes ← amrquantes · maqruantes · marqauntes · marqquantes · marquanets · marquanntes · marquantess · marquantse
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "marquante" and "marquantes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "marquante" or "marquantes" show up more?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "marquante" / "marquantes". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "marquante" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "marquantes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #108,715 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "marquante" and "marquantes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "marquante vs masquant". 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 #108,715 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.