femme porteuse

\fam pɔʁ.tøz\

/\fam pɔʁ.tøz\/ noun

The verdict

“femme porteuse” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Femme qui porte un bébé jusqu’à terme en vue de le donner à une autre cellule familiale, qu’elle ait participé à sa conception, lorsque le bébé est issu de la fécondation de l’un de ses ovules, ou ...

Corpus desk

Index FR-femme-porteuse · femme porteuse · French

femme porteuse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "F" 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.

Key facts for femme porteuse
PropertyValue
Headwordfemme porteuse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fam pɔʁ.tøz\
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “femme porteuse” sits in French frequency

femme porteuse falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

femme porteuse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \fam pɔʁ.tøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Femme qui porte un bébé jusqu’à terme en vue de le donner à une autre cellule familiale, qu’elle ait participé à sa conception, lorsque le bébé est issu de la fécondation de l’un de ses ovules, ou ...".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for femme porteuse, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is femme porteuse, spelled F-E-M-M-E- -P-O-R-T-E-U-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Femme qui porte un bébé jusqu’à terme en vue de le donner à une autre cellule familiale, qu’elle ait participé à sa conception, lorsque le bébé est issu de la fécondation de l’un de ses ovules, ou non, si elle se fait implanter un embryon étranger dans l’utérus.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "femme porteuse"?
"femme porteuse" is spelled F-E-M-M-E- -P-O-R-T-E-U-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fam pɔʁ.tøz\.
What does "femme porteuse" mean?
As a noun, "femme porteuse" means: Femme qui porte un bébé jusqu’à terme en vue de le donner à une autre cellule familiale, qu’elle ait participé à sa conception, lorsque le bébé est issu de la fécondation de l’un de ses ovules, ou ...
How do you pronounce "femme porteuse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "femme porteuse" is \fam pɔʁ.tøz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "femme porteuse" come from?
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list