marchèrent

\maʁ.ʃɛʁ\

/\maʁ.ʃɛʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“marchèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #84,047 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#84,047
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de marcher.

Corpus desk

Index FR-marcherent · marchèrent · French

marchèrent · rank #84,047 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #84,047
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH maracas

Nearest frequency peer: maracas (-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 « marchèrent »

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 « marchèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for marchèrent
PropertyValue
Headwordmarchèrent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\maʁ.ʃɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#84,047
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « marchèrent » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).marchèrenttombe 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: « maracas » (#84,046), « Marcillac » (#84,048), « mapuche » (#84,045). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « marchèrent » est au #84,047. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

marchèrent is uncommon French at frequency #84,047 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \maʁ.ʃɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de marcher.".

marchèrent has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is marchèrent, spelled M-A-R-C-H-È-R-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de marcher.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Ils marchèrent ainsi sur le bitume et sur le pavé, sous la lune et les réverbères, longeant des maisons mortes, un chantier endormi, des tripots de rogommistes qui, par la porte ouverte, s’en allaient en fumée de tabac et d’alcool.

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 "marchèrent"?
"marchèrent" is spelled M-A-R-C-H-È-R-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \maʁ.ʃɛʁ\.
What does "marchèrent" mean?
As a verb, "marchèrent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de marcher.
How do you pronounce "marchèrent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marchèrent" is \maʁ.ʃɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list