Which to use
“marqué” and “marquées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,046
- “marqué” frequency rank
- #12,418
- “marquées” frequency rank
- 14464
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | marqué | marquées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui frappe la vue, l’attention, qui se fait remarquer, apparent, visible. | Féminin pluriel de marqué. |
Same sound, different letters: marqué vs marquées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
This is the hard kind. marqué and marquées 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 2 extra letter(s) - “marqué” sits inside “marquées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 14464, 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\. marquées is at rank #12,418, 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 14464, this pair ranks #396,525 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of marqué vs marquées
Shared letters: amqrué. Private to "marqué": -. Private to "marquées": es.
"marqué" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV · "marquées" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVVC