marchette
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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marchette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit bâton qui soutient le piège d’un oiseleur et sur lequel les oiseaux ne peuvent marcher sans détendre la machine et sans se trouver pris. Pronounced \maʁ.ʃɛt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marchette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁ.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for marchette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \maʁ.ʃɛt\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for marchette in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 marchette, spelled M-A-R-C-H-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit bâton qui soutient le piège d’un oiseleur et sur lequel les oiseaux ne peuvent marcher sans détendre la machine et sans se trouver pris.
- 2Petite marche qui abaisse les lices d’un métier à tisser.
- 3Petit tapis.
- 4Déambulateur, appareil qui aide les personnes âgées à marcher, en leur servant de support.
- 5Youpala
- 6Bande antidérapante ou anti usure fixée sur le nez de la marche d'un escalier. Il peut s'agir de moquette collée, de barre métallique, de bande émerisée, etc.
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