démarcher
\de.maʁ.ʃe\
The verdict
“démarcher” is uncommon French (frequency #56,571 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,571
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire des démarches auprès de (quelqu’un) pour en obtenir quelque chose (par exemple en faire un client).
Corpus desk
Index FR-demarcher · démarcher · French
démarcher · rank #56,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,571
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH démagogues
Nearest frequency peer: démagogues (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « démarcher »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- délictueux
délictueux
43,433 corpus weight
- délimitées
délimitées
43,432 corpus weight
- démagogues
démagogues
43,431 corpus weight
- démarcher
démarcher
43,430 corpus weight
- démontés
démontés
43,429 corpus weight
- dépecer
dépecer
43,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « démarcher » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | démarcher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.maʁ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « démarcher » en français
Rare enough to double-check
démarcher is uncommon French at frequency #56,571 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.maʁ.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire des démarches auprès de (quelqu’un) pour en obtenir quelque chose (par exemple en faire un client).".
No misspelling variants are generated for démarcher in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is démarcher, spelled D-É-M-A-R-C-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire des démarches auprès de (quelqu’un) pour en obtenir quelque chose (par exemple en faire un client).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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