à bon marché

/\a bɔ̃ maʁ.ʃe\/ adv

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

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à bon marché is anFrenchadv. It means: Avec moins de perte, de dommage qu’on n’en avait à craindre. Pronounced \a bɔ̃ maʁ.ʃe\.

Key facts for à bon marché
PropertyValue
Headwordà bon marché
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdv
IPA\a bɔ̃ maʁ.ʃe\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

à bon marché is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for à bon marché is 12 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a bɔ̃ maʁ.ʃe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for à bon marché in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 French form is à bon marché, spelled À- -B-O-N- -M-A-R-C-H-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Avec moins de perte, de dommage qu’on n’en avait à craindre.
  2. 2
    À peu de frais, sans beaucoup de peine.
  3. 3
    À bas prix ; à des conditions particulièrement avantageuses.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "à bon marché"?
"à bon marché" is spelled À- -B-O-N- -M-A-R-C-H-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a bɔ̃ maʁ.ʃe\.
What does "à bon marché" mean?
As an adv, "à bon marché" means: Avec moins de perte, de dommage qu’on n’en avait à craindre.
How do you pronounce "à bon marché"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "à bon marché" is \a bɔ̃ maʁ.ʃe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "à bon marché" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.