marche ou crève
\maʁ.ʃ‿u kʁɛv\
The verdict
“marche ou crève” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - 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) - Avancer coûte que coûte pour réussir, au risque de tout perdre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marche ou crève |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \maʁ.ʃ‿u kʁɛv\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “marche ou crève” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for marche ou crève is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \maʁ.ʃ‿u kʁɛv\. 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: "Avancer coûte que coûte pour réussir, au risque de tout perdre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for marche ou crève 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 ou crève, spelled M-A-R-C-H-E- -O-U- -C-R-È-V-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Avancer coûte que coûte pour réussir, au risque de tout perdre.
This word in other languages
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Using “marche ou crève”
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- The one correct French spelling is M-A-R-C-H-E- -O-U- -C-R-È-V-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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