Chine rouge
\ʃin ʁuʒ\
The verdict
“Chine rouge” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Surnom de la République populaire de Chine, par opposition à Taïwan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Chine rouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʃin ʁuʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Chine rouge” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Chine rouge is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʃin ʁuʒ\. 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: "Surnom de la République populaire de Chine, par opposition à Taïwan.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Chine rouge, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Chine rouge, spelled C-H-I-N-E- -R-O-U-G-E.
Definition
- 1Surnom de la République populaire de Chine, par opposition à Taïwan.
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.
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Using “Chine rouge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is C-H-I-N-E- -R-O-U-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʃin ʁuʒ\ (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.