place du marché
\plas dy maʁ.ʃe\
The verdict
“place du marché” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espace urbain recevant les étals de marchands.
Corpus desk
Index FR-place-du-marche · place du marché · French
place du marché · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | place du marché |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \plas dy maʁ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « place du marché » en français
Rare enough to double-check
place du marché is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \plas dy maʁ.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espace urbain recevant les étals de marchands.".
No misspelling variants are generated for place du marché in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 place du marché, spelled P-L-A-C-E- -D-U- -M-A-R-C-H-É.
Definition
- 1Espace urbain recevant les étals de marchands.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how place du marché appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourquoi les enfants traînent-ils sur la place du marché pendant les heures de cours ?
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.