dans le marbre
\dɑ̃ lə maʁbʁ\
The verdict
“dans le marbre” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — De façon pérenne, en parlant, par exemple, de quelque chose d’inscrit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dans le marbre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \dɑ̃ lə maʁbʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dans le marbre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for dans le marbre is 14 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɑ̃ lə maʁbʁ\. 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: "De façon pérenne, en parlant, par exemple, de quelque chose d’inscrit.".
No misspelling variants are generated for dans le marbre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French 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 French form is dans le marbre, spelled D-A-N-S- -L-E- -M-A-R-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1De façon pérenne, en parlant, par exemple, de quelque chose d’inscrit.
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- The one correct French spelling is D-A-N-S- -L-E- -M-A-R-B-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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