marketplace

\maʁ.kɛt.plɛs\

/\maʁ.kɛt.plɛs\/ noun

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The verdict

“marketplace” is uncommon French (frequency #54,717 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,717
frequency rank, French
5,038
“M” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Place de marché. Plateforme permettant de passer une seule commande auprès de plusieurs fournisseurs.

Corpus desk

Index FR-marketplace · marketplace · French

marketplace · rank #54,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,717
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,038
  • PHOTO-FINISH marginaliser

Nearest frequency peer: marginaliser (-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 « marketplace »

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for marketplace
PropertyValue
Headwordmarketplace
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\maʁ.kɛt.plɛs\
Letters11
Frequency rank#54,717
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « marketplace » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.marketplacetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « marginaliser » (#54,716), « marmottes » (#54,718), « manufacturières » (#54,715). Parmi 5,038 lemmes en « M », « marketplace » est au #54,717. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

marketplace is uncommon French at frequency #54,717 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁ.kɛt.plɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Place de marché. Plateforme permettant de passer une seule commande auprès de plusieurs fournisseurs.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for marketplace, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is marketplace, spelled M-A-R-K-E-T-P-L-A-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Place de marché. Plateforme permettant de passer une seule commande auprès de plusieurs fournisseurs.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. « Le succès de cette marketplace nécessite l'implication directe des compagnies fondatrices et des fournisseurs stratégiques, précise Jean-Pierre Bès, délégué général aux Achats. Ce que nous mettons en place, c'est une place de marché "verticale", c'est-à-dire des entreprises qui interviennent sur le même secteur d'activité, qui partagent donc souvent les…
  2. « Nul animal amené sur le marché ne peut, excepté en cas d'accident ou de maladie, être retiré sans avoir été publiquement exposé en vente, et il ne peut être vendu dans aucun autre endroit du marché que dans celui spécialement désigné sous le nom de Market place. Mais il n'existe aucune prescription pour obliger d'amener sur le marché les animaux qui vie…

Synonyms

app storemarché d'applicationsplace de marché

This word in other languages

marketplace(English)

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 "marketplace"?
"marketplace" is spelled M-A-R-K-E-T-P-L-A-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \maʁ.kɛt.plɛs\.
What does "marketplace" mean?
As a noun, "marketplace" means: Place de marché. Plateforme permettant de passer une seule commande auprès de plusieurs fournisseurs.
How do you pronounce "marketplace"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marketplace" is \maʁ.kɛt.plɛs\. 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 "marketplace", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list