marchent
\maʁʃ\
The verdict
“marchent” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,883. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,883
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de marcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marchent · marchent · French
marchent · rank #8,883 · 13 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,883
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH manques
Nearest frequency peer: manques (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « marchent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- maine
maine
91,121 corpus weight
- manipuler
manipuler
91,120 corpus weight
- manques
manques
91,119 corpus weight
- marchent
marchent
91,118 corpus weight
- Marianne
Marianne
91,117 corpus weight
- matelas
matelas
91,116 corpus weight
What this shows « marchent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marchent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \maʁʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,883 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « marchent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around marchent (IPA \maʁʃ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,883 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for marchent, with forms such as "amrchent", "macrhent", and "marcchent". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "marcher", "marchés", "marient", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is marchent, spelled M-A-R-C-H-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de marcher.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de marcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marchent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans les rues, se promènent : les vaches à l’aise à se « jobrer » le museau dans les poubelles (est-ce très sain pour elles et le lait qu’elles délivrent ?), les écoliers en costume marchent fièrement, les femmes ont confectionné de longues guirlandes, les présentent dans des corbeilles tressées, étalage rehaussé sur des caisses en bois défoncées, les fle…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- amrchent
- macrhent
- marcchent
- marcehnt
- marchennt
- marchentt
- marchetn
- marchhent
- marchnet
- marhcent
- marrchent
- mmarchent
- mrachent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of marchent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).