mère porteuse
\mɛʁ pɔʁ.tøz\
The verdict
“mère 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
- 13
- 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-mere-porteuse · mère porteuse · French
mère porteuse · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mère porteuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ pɔʁ.tøz\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mère porteuse” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mère porteuse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɛʁ 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 ...".
mère porteuse has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mère porteuse, spelled M-È-R-E- -P-O-R-T-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Femme 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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