marcha
\maʁ.ʃa\
The verdict
“marcha” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,859. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,859
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de marcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marcha · marcha · French
marcha · rank #40,859 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,859
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manuscrites
Nearest frequency peer: manuscrites (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « marcha »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maladresses
maladresses
59,146 corpus weight
- manichéisme
manichéisme
59,145 corpus weight
- mante
mante
59,144 corpus weight
- manuscrites
manuscrites
59,143 corpus weight
- marcha
marcha
59,142 corpus weight
- material
material
59,139 corpus weight
What this shows « marcha » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marcha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \maʁ.ʃa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #40,859 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marcha »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around marcha (IPA \maʁ.ʃa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,859 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de marcher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for marcha, with forms such as "amrcha", "macrha", and "marcah". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "match", "Maria", "marco", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is marcha, spelled M-A-R-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de marcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marcha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bien plus, cette masse d’idées s’harmonia, s’anima, se personnifia presque et marcha dans les pays fantastiques où l’âme aime à laisser vagabonder ses folles progénitures.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrcha
- macrha
- marcah
- marccha
- marchha
- marhca
- marrcha
- mmarcha
- mracha
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marcha - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "marcha", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).