concombre porte bornes
\kɔ̃.kɔ̃bʁ pɔʁt bɔʁn\
The verdict
“concombre porte bornes” 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
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Péponide de Cucumis metulitiferus consommé cru comme fruit ou comme légume.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | concombre porte bornes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.kɔ̃bʁ pɔʁt bɔʁn\ |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “concombre porte bornes” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for concombre porte bornes is 22 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.kɔ̃bʁ pɔʁt bɔʁn\. 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: "Péponide de Cucumis metulitiferus consommé cru comme fruit ou comme légume.".
No misspelling variants are generated for concombre porte bornes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 concombre porte bornes, spelled C-O-N-C-O-M-B-R-E- -P-O-R-T-E- -B-O-R-N-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Péponide de Cucumis metulitiferus consommé cru comme fruit ou comme légume.
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- The one correct French spelling is C-O-N-C-O-M-B-R-E- -P-O-R-T-E- -B-O-R-N-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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