marchepied

\maʁ.ʃə.pje\

/\maʁ.ʃə.pje\/ noun

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The verdict

“marchepied” is uncommon French (frequency #60,190 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,190
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Escabeau, petit meuble à deux ou trois degrés, dont on se sert pour atteindre quelque chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-marchepied · marchepied · French

marchepied · rank #60,190 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,190
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH Maputo

Nearest frequency peer: Maputo (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « marchepied »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marchepied » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for marchepied
PropertyValue
Headwordmarchepied
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\maʁ.ʃə.pje\
Letters10
Frequency rank#60,190
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « marchepied » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).marchepiedtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Maputo » (#60,189), « marika » (#60,191), « mander » (#60,188). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « marchepied » est au #60,190. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

marchepied is uncommon French at frequency #60,190 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.ʃə.pje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.

marchepied has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is marchepied, spelled M-A-R-C-H-E-P-I-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Escabeau, petit meuble à deux ou trois degrés, dont on se sert pour atteindre quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Sorte de degrés, ordinairement de métal, fixes ou pouvant se replier, et qui servent à monter dans un véhicule.
  3. 3
    Marches plus ou moins nombreuses qui conduisent à une estrade.
  4. 4
    Moyen de parvenir à un poste plus élevé.
  5. 5
    Moyen de parvenir à ses fins.
  6. 6
    Support sur lequel on pose les pieds.
  7. 7
    Chemin longeant un cours d'eau sur la rive opposée au chemin de halage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how marchepied appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il vous faut un marchepied pour atteindre ce rayon de bibliothèque.
  2. Je fus extraordinairement émue par le sort de ce roi captif qu’un tyran oriental utilisait comme marchepied quand il montait à cheval ; il m’arrivait de me substituer tremblante, demi-nue, à l’esclave dont un dur éperon écorchait l’échine.

Synonyms

tremplinpalier

This word in other languages

running board(English)estribo(Español)Trittbrett(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "marchepied"?
"marchepied" is spelled M-A-R-C-H-E-P-I-E-D. The IPA pronunciation is \maʁ.ʃə.pje\.
What does "marchepied" mean?
As a noun, "marchepied" means: Escabeau, petit meuble à deux ou trois degrés, dont on se sert pour atteindre quelque chose.
How do you pronounce "marchepied"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marchepied" is \maʁ.ʃə.pje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "marchepied" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "marchepied", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list