ça marche

\sa maʁʃ\

/\sa maʁʃ\/ intj

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The verdict

“ça marche” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’accord.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ca-marche · ça marche · French

ça marche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "Ç" 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.

Key facts for ça marche
PropertyValue
Headwordça marche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechInterjection
IPA\sa maʁʃ\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “ça marche” sits in French frequency

ça marchesits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent French words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

ça marche is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \sa maʁʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ça marche, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ça marche, spelled Ç-A- -M-A-R-C-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    D’accord.
  2. 2
    Se dit d'un procédé qui fonctionne correctement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how ça marche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. ok ça marche je m’en occupe dès que possible!
  2. ok, ça marche, je suis ok pour t’envoyer ça, quels sont tes délais, ton prix ?

Synonyms

ça fonctionneça joueça rouleça gaze

This word in other languages

está bien(Español)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ça marche"?
"ça marche" is spelled Ç-A- -M-A-R-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \sa maʁʃ\.
What does "ça marche" mean?
As an interjection, "ça marche" means: D’accord.
How do you pronounce "ça marche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ça marche" is \sa maʁʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ça marche" come from?
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list