faire marche arrière
\fɛʁ maʁ.ʃ‿a.ʁjɛʁ\
The verdict
“faire marche arrière” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Revenir en arrière ; reculer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | faire marche arrière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ maʁ.ʃ‿a.ʁjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “faire marche arrière” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for faire marche arrière is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fɛʁ maʁ.ʃ‿a.ʁjɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for faire marche arrière, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is faire marche arrière, spelled F-A-I-R-E- -M-A-R-C-H-E- -A-R-R-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Revenir en arrière ; reculer.
- 2Se rétracter ; retirer une opinion avancée ou annuler un projet.
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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 marche arrière”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is F-A-I-R-E- -M-A-R-C-H-E- -A-R-R-I-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \fɛʁ maʁ.ʃ‿a.ʁjɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.