Which to use
“marquée” and “marquées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,507
- “marquée” frequency rank
- #12,418
- “marquées” frequency rank
- 16925
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | marquée | marquées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de marqué. | Féminin pluriel de marqué. |
Same sound, different letters: marquée vs marquées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
This is the hard kind. marquée 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 1 extra letter(s) - “marquée” sits inside “marquées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16925, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
marquée is recorded at frequency rank #4,507, 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 16925, this pair ranks #385,604 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of marquée vs marquées
Shared letters: aemqrué. Private to "marquée": -. Private to "marquées": s.
"marquée" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVV · "marquées" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVVVC