marche funèbre
\mɑʁʃ fy.nɛbʁ\
The verdict
“marche funèbre” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Forme musicale généralement écrites en mode mineur dont le rythme lent et à deux temps convient à un cortège funèbre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marche funèbre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɑʁʃ fy.nɛbʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marche funèbre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for marche funèbre is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɑʁʃ fy.nɛbʁ\. 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: "Forme musicale généralement écrites en mode mineur dont le rythme lent et à deux temps convient à un cortège funèbre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for marche funèbre 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 marche funèbre, spelled M-A-R-C-H-E- -F-U-N-È-B-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Forme musicale généralement écrites en mode mineur dont le rythme lent et à deux temps convient à un cortège funèbre.
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-R-C-H-E- -F-U-N-È-B-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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