Which to use
“marquée” is an adjective and “marques” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #4,507
- “marquée” frequency rank
- #2,838
- “marques” frequency rank
- 7345
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | marquée | marques |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de marqué. | Pluriel de marque. |
Where the eye mixes marquée and marques
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: marquée vs marques
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: marquée is \maʁ.ke\ while marques is \maʁk\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7345, 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\. marques is at rank #2,838, tagged as anoun, pronounced \maʁk\.
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 7345, this pair ranks #423,444 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of marquée vs marques
Shared letters: aemqru. Private to "marquée": é. Private to "marques": s.
"marquée" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVV · "marques" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- marques ← amrques · maqrues · marqeus · marqques · marquess · marquse · marrques · maruqes
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "marquée" and "marques" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "marquée" vs "marques" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "marquée" and "marques" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "marquée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "marques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #423,444 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "marquée" and "marques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "marquée vs moquée". 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 #423,444 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.