marché

/\maʁ.ʃe\/ noun

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Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#492

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

marché is aFrenchnoun. It means: Lieu public où s’achètent et se vendent les denrées, les marchandises, les objets d’usage courant. → voir marché-gare et place du marché Pronounced \maʁ.ʃe\. It ranks #492 in French word frequency. Often confused with mare and match.

Key facts for marché
PropertyValue
Headwordmarché
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\maʁ.ʃe\
Letters6
Frequency rank#492
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of marché in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for marché is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \maʁ.ʃe\. Corpus data places it at rank #492 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for marché, with forms such as "amrché", "macrhé", and "marcché". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "mare", "match", "marge", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 marché, spelled M-A-R-C-H-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu public où s’achètent et se vendent les denrées, les marchandises, les objets d’usage courant. → voir marché-gare et place du marché
  2. 2
    Place où l’on vend des marchandises particulières. → voir marché d’esclaves, marché aux fleurs, marché aux épices, marché aux poissons et marché aux puces
  3. 3
    Ville, pays où l’activité commerciale est importante.
  4. 4
    Bâtiment abritant les emplacements dédiés. → voir marché couvert, supermarché et hypermarché
  5. 5
    Lieu d’échange social. → voir économie de marché
  6. 6
    Ce qu’on y achète. → voir faire son marché
  7. 7
    Transaction entre un vendeur et un acheteur. → voir faire un marché et à bon marché
  8. 8
    Espace où se font ces transactions. → voir marché immobilier, marché financier, marché d’actions, marché de gros, marché de détail, marché de l’emploi et …
  9. 9
    Valeur de référence pour une transaction. → voir cours du marché et marché conclu
  10. 10
    Lieu où l’on fixe ces valeurs.
  11. 11
    Tendance pour l’évolution de cette valeur. → voir marché baissier et marché haussier
  12. 12
    Espace où on applique cette valeur.
  13. 13
    État de l’offre et de la demande. → voir marché du travail
  14. 14
    Convention verbale ou écrite, renfermant les conditions d’une vente ou d’un échange. → voir faire un marché, marché commun et …
  15. 15
    Accord réglementant l’accès à un type de vente. → voir marché de l’or, marché public et autorisation de mise sur le marché
  16. 16
    Réunion des industriels, producteurs, marchands, spéculateurs où se décident les prix d’un produit ou d’une denrée, où s’en établit le cours.

Synonyms

échangeinstrumentumlot juridiquetransaction

This word in other languages

market(English)mercado(Español)Markt(Deutsch)mercado(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: amrché,macrhé,marcché,marche,marchhé,marcéh,marhcé,marrché,mmarché,mraché

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for marché

Misspelling Variants of "marché"

amrché6macrhé6marcché7marche6marchhé7marcéh6marhcé6marrché7
Misspelling Variants of "marché"

Frequency rank: #492 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "marché"?
"marché" is spelled M-A-R-C-H-É. The IPA pronunciation is \maʁ.ʃe\.
What does "marché" mean?
As a noun, "marché" means: Lieu public où s’achètent et se vendent les denrées, les marchandises, les objets d’usage courant. → voir marché-gare et place du marché
What words are commonly confused with "marché"?
"marché" is commonly confused with "mare", "match", "marge". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "marché"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marché" is \maʁ.ʃe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "marché" come from?
"marché" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.