marquette

Other forms of marquette

plural

marquettes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about marquette

What does marquette mean?

marquette means "French missionary who accompanied Louis Joliet in exploring the upper Mississippi River valley (1637-1675)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in marquette?

marquette has 2 syllables: marq-uette. The stress falls on "uette". In IPA it is /mɑɹˈkɛt/.

What is another word for marquette?

Close synonyms include Jacques Marquette, Pere Jacques Marquette. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is marquette a common word?

marquette is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.