Which to use
“marrant” and “marrants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,275
- “marrant” frequency rank
- #34,619
- “marrants” frequency rank
- 37894
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | marrant | marrants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Comique ; drôle ; ludique. | Masculin pluriel de marrant. |
Same sound, different letters: marrant vs marrants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. marrant runs 7 letters (CVCCVCC) against marrants's 8 (CVCCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - marrant / marrants
This is the hard kind. marrant and marrants are pronounced identically (\ma.ʁɑ̃\) 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) - “marrant” sits inside “marrants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37894, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
marrant is recorded at frequency rank #3,275, classified as anadj, pronounced \ma.ʁɑ̃\. marrants is at rank #34,619, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ma.ʁɑ̃\.
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 37894, this pair ranks #259,221 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of marrant vs marrants
Shared letters: amnrt. Private to "marrant": -. Private to "marrants": s.
"marrant" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC · "marrants" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "marrant" and "marrants" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "marrant" or "marrants"?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "marrant" / "marrants". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "marrant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "marrants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #259,221 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "marrant" and "marrants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "marrantes vs marrants". 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 #259,221 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.