place du marché
\plas dy maʁ.ʃe\
The verdict
“place du marché” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Espace urbain recevant les étals de marchands.
| 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) |
Where “place du marché” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for place du marché is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \plas dy maʁ.ʃe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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.
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Using “place du marché”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-L-A-C-E- -D-U- -M-A-R-C-H-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \plas dy maʁ.ʃe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.