marque de commerce

/\maʁk də kɔ.mɛʁs\/ noun

Letters

18 characters

Language

French

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marque de commerce is aFrenchnoun. It means: Signe distinctif (un logotype par exemple), un nom ou un groupe de mots, protégé par un usage reconnu et constant, et servant à distinguer les produits ou services d’une personne physique ou morale. Pronounced \maʁk də kɔ.mɛʁs\.

Key facts for marque de commerce
PropertyValue
Headwordmarque de commerce
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\maʁk də kɔ.mɛʁs\
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

marque de commerce is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for marque de commerce is 18 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \maʁk də kɔ.mɛʁs\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for marque de commerce 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 marque de commerce, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-E- -D-E- -C-O-M-M-E-R-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Signe distinctif (un logotype par exemple), un nom ou un groupe de mots, protégé par un usage reconnu et constant, et servant à distinguer les produits ou services d’une personne physique ou morale.
  2. 2
    Ce qui est à la source du renom, de la célébrité, de la reconnaissance par les autres.
  3. 3
    Façade, image servant à la réputation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "marque de commerce"?
"marque de commerce" is spelled M-A-R-Q-U-E- -D-E- -C-O-M-M-E-R-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \maʁk də kɔ.mɛʁs\.
What does "marque de commerce" mean?
As a noun, "marque de commerce" means: Signe distinctif (un logotype par exemple), un nom ou un groupe de mots, protégé par un usage reconnu et constant, et servant à distinguer les produits ou services d’une personne physique ou morale.
How do you pronounce "marque de commerce"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "marque de commerce" is \maʁk də kɔ.mɛʁs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "marque de commerce" come from?
"marque de commerce" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.