marché aux puces
\maʁ.ʃe o pys\
The verdict
“marché aux puces” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Marché où se vendent des objets d’occasion, souvent de faible valeur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marché aux puces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.ʃe o pys\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marché aux puces” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for marché aux puces is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \maʁ.ʃe o pys\. 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: "Marché où se vendent des objets d’occasion, souvent de faible valeur.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for marché aux puces, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is marché aux puces, spelled M-A-R-C-H-É- -A-U-X- -P-U-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Marché où se vendent des objets d’occasion, souvent de faible valeur.
This word in other languages
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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Using “marché aux puces”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-A-R-C-H-É- -A-U-X- -P-U-C-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \maʁ.ʃe o pys\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.