bon marché
\bɔ̃ maʁ.ʃe\
The verdict
“bon marché” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dont le prix, à l’instar de la valeur, est faible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bon-marche · bon marché · French
bon marché · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bon marché |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɔ̃ maʁ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bon marché » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bon marché is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \bɔ̃ maʁ.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bon marché, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bon marché, spelled B-O-N- -M-A-R-C-H-É.
Definition
- 1Dont le prix, à l’instar de la valeur, est faible.
- 2Dont le prix n’est pas élevé par rapport à sa valeur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bon marché appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La vie est si bon marché ! Le litre de vin, très pur et très capiteux, coûte à présent deux sous ; il ne coûtera qu’un sou dans un mois !
Nous devons attirer ici l’attention sur l’essence de mirbane ou nitrobenzine qui a la même odeur que l’essence d’amandes amères et qui pour cette raison s’est trouvée employée pour parfumer des savons bon marché.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.