faire bon marché
\fɛʁ bɔ̃ maʁ.ʃe\
The verdict
“faire bon marché” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire peu de cas de, ne pas épargner, prodiguer à bon compte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-faire-bon-marche · faire bon marché · French
faire bon marché · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" 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 | faire bon marché |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ bɔ̃ maʁ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « faire bon marché » en français
Rare enough to double-check
faire bon marché is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ bɔ̃ maʁ.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire peu de cas de, ne pas épargner, prodiguer à bon compte.".
No misspelling variants are generated for faire bon marché 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is faire bon marché, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -B-O-N- -M-A-R-C-H-É.
Definition
- 1Faire peu de cas de, ne pas épargner, prodiguer à bon compte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how faire bon marché appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il m’a avertie que je ne devais pas faire bon marché de la vindicte de cette femme et qu’il ne voulait pas que, plus tard, je puisse lui reprocher de m’être laissé jeter dans une dangereuse aventure.
Le nationalisme déréglé a triomphé. Il a empreint les gouvernants. Pour s’épargner l’opprobre de penser à la paix, bon marché fut fait des hécatombes.
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.