en état de marche
The verdict
“en état de marche” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Parfaitement fonctionnel
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | en état de marche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.n‿e.ta də maʁʃ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “en état de marche” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for en état de marche is 17 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɑ̃.n‿e.ta də maʁʃ\. 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: "Parfaitement fonctionnel".
No misspelling variants are generated for en état de marche 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 en état de marche, spelled E-N- -É-T-A-T- -D-E- -M-A-R-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Parfaitement fonctionnel
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- The one correct French spelling is E-N- -É-T-A-T- -D-E- -M-A-R-C-H-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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