marcher sur les pieds
The verdict
“marcher sur les pieds” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a phrase — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 21
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: auf die Zehen treten, auf die Hühneraugen treten
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marcher sur les pieds |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [maʁ.ʃe syʁ le pje] |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marcher sur les pieds” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for marcher sur les pieds is 21 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [maʁ.ʃe syʁ le pje]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "auf die Zehen treten, auf die Hühneraugen treten".
No misspelling variants are generated for marcher sur les pieds in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is marcher sur les pieds, spelled M-A-R-C-H-E-R- -S-U-R- -L-E-S- -P-I-E-D-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1auf die Zehen treten, auf die Hühneraugen treten
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Using “marcher sur les pieds”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is M-A-R-C-H-E-R- -S-U-R- -L-E-S- -P-I-E-D-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [maʁ.ʃe syʁ le pje] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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