marque de commerce
\maʁk də kɔ.mɛʁs\
The verdict
“marque de commerce” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-marque-de-commerce · marque de commerce · French
marque de commerce · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marque de commerce |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \maʁk də kɔ.mɛʁs\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « marque de commerce » en français
Rare enough to double-check
marque de commerce is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \maʁk də kɔ.mɛʁs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for marque de commerce in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 marque de commerce, spelled M-A-R-Q-U-E- -D-E- -C-O-M-M-E-R-C-E.
Definition
- 1Signe 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.
- 2Ce qui est à la source du renom, de la célébrité, de la reconnaissance par les autres.
- 3Façade, image servant à la réputation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how marque de commerce appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Certaines marques de commerce sont devenues des noms communs comme « frigidaire, caddie » ou encore « walkman ».
L’ambition doit devenir notre marque de commerce à Québec.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.