églantine rouge
\e.ɡlɑ̃.tin ʁuʒ\
The verdict
“églantine rouge” 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) - Églantine rouge - ou, le plus souvent, fleur artificielle imitant l’églantine rouge - utilisée comme signe de reconnaissance porté à la boutonnière par les socialistes français à partir de 1899, pu...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | églantine rouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \e.ɡlɑ̃.tin ʁuʒ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “églantine rouge” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for églantine rouge is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.ɡlɑ̃.tin ʁuʒ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for églantine rouge 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 églantine rouge, spelled É-G-L-A-N-T-I-N-E- -R-O-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Églantine rouge - ou, le plus souvent, fleur artificielle imitant l’églantine rouge - utilisée comme signe de reconnaissance porté à la boutonnière par les socialistes français à partir de 1899, puis par la gauche communiste et socialiste des années 1920 jusqu’au Front populaire.
- 2Militant socialiste (ou communiste à partir de 1920) porteur de cet insigne.
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Using “églantine rouge”
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- The one correct French spelling is É-G-L-A-N-T-I-N-E- -R-O-U-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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