marchand de vin
\maʁ.ʃɑ̃ də vɛ̃\
The verdict
“marchand de vin” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sauce préparée avec des échalottes et du vin rouge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marchand de vin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \maʁ.ʃɑ̃ də vɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marchand de vin” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for marchand de vin is 15 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \maʁ.ʃɑ̃ də vɛ̃\. 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: "Sauce préparée avec des échalottes et du vin rouge.".
No misspelling variants are generated for marchand de vin 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 marchand de vin, spelled M-A-R-C-H-A-N-D- -D-E- -V-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sauce préparée avec des échalottes et du vin rouge.
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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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-R-C-H-A-N-D- -D-E- -V-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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