mère porteuse
\mɛʁ pɔʁ.tøz\
The verdict
“mère porteuse” 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
- 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 ...
| 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
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mère porteuse is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mɛʁ pɔʁ.tøz\. 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: "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 ...".
No misspelling variants are generated for mère porteuse 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 mère porteuse, spelled M-È-R-E- -P-O-R-T-E-U-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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- The one correct French spelling is M-È-R-E- -P-O-R-T-E-U-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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