marchèrent
\maʁ.ʃɛʁ\
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
- mapuche
mapuche
15,956 corpus weight
- maracas
maracas
15,955 corpus weight
- marchèrent
marchèrent
15,954 corpus weight
- Marcillac
Marcillac
15,953 corpus weight
- massent
massent
15,951 corpus weight
- mast
mast
15,950 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « marchèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marchèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \maʁ.ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marchèrent » en français
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
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de marcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how marchèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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