faire bon marché
The verdict
“faire bon marché” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Faire peu de cas de, ne pas épargner, prodiguer à bon compte.
| 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) |
Where “faire bon marché” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire bon marché is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ bɔ̃ maʁ.ʃe\. 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: "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.
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 faire bon marché, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -B-O-N- -M-A-R-C-H-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire peu de cas de, ne pas épargner, prodiguer à bon compte.
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.
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Using “faire bon marché”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -B-O-N- -M-A-R-C-H-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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