fermer la marche
\fɛʁ.me la maʁʃ\
The verdict
“fermer la marche” 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) - Être le dernier d’un cortège ou d’une troupe de gens qui sont en marche.
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Index FR-fermer-la-marche · fermer la marche · French
fermer la marche · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | fermer la marche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \fɛʁ.me la maʁʃ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « fermer la marche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
fermer la marche is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \fɛʁ.me la maʁʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Être le dernier d’un cortège ou d’une troupe de gens qui sont en marche.".
fermer la marche doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is fermer la marche, spelled F-E-R-M-E-R- -L-A- -M-A-R-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Être le dernier d’un cortège ou d’une troupe de gens qui sont en marche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how fermer la marche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’y voyais strictement rien et je savais que derrière chaque porte ou chaque meuble pouvait se cacher un type enragé avec un Sig Sauer, aussi j’ai pris la tête du peloton en avançant à tâtons, pendant que Josy fermait la marche.
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.