marchande d’ail
\maʁ.ʃɑ̃d d‿aj\
The verdict
“marchande d’ail” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lesbienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marchande-d-ail · marchande d’ail · French
marchande d’ail · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | marchande d’ail |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.ʃɑ̃d d‿aj\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marchande d’ail » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marchande d’ail is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.ʃɑ̃d d‿aj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lesbienne.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for marchande d’ail, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is marchande d’ail, spelled M-A-R-C-H-A-N-D-E- -D-’-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Lesbienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marchande d’ail appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le titre primitif de ce volume … était : Les Marchandes d’ail, parce que, populairement, ceux qui ne mâchent pas les mots et ont l’habitude d’appeler un chat un chat …, n’auraient certainement pas compris l’euphémisme adoucissant l’expression brutale de Gousse et de Gougnotte, pas davantage ils n’eussent compris ces mots : Lesbienne et Tribade, et encore…
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