Which to use
“marqué” and “marquée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,046
- “marqué” frequency rank
- #4,507
- “marquée” frequency rank
- 6553
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | marqué | marquée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui frappe la vue, l’attention, qui se fait remarquer, apparent, visible. | Féminin singulier de marqué. |
Same sound, different letters: marqué vs marquée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - marqué / marquée
This is the hard kind. marqué and marquée are pronounced identically (\maʁ.ke\) 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) - “marqué” sits inside “marquée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 6553, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
marqué is recorded at frequency rank #2,046, classified as anadj, pronounced \maʁ.ke\. marquée is at rank #4,507, tagged as anadj, pronounced \maʁ.ke\.
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 6553, this pair ranks #425,906 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of marqué vs marquée
Shared letters: amqrué. Private to "marqué": -. Private to "marquée": e.
"marqué" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV · "marquée" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "marqué" for "marquée" ever safe?
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After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "marqué" / "marquée". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "marqué" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "marquée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #425,906 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "marqué" and "marquée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "marquée vs moquée". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #425,906 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.