pain-de-pourceau
\pɛ̃ də puʁ.so\
The verdict
“pain-de-pourceau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cyclamen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pain-de-pourceau · pain-de-pourceau · French
pain-de-pourceau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | pain-de-pourceau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ̃ də puʁ.so\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
pain-de-pourceau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛ̃ də puʁ.so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cyclamen.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pain-de-pourceau in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pain-de-pourceau, spelled P-A-I-N---D-E---P-O-U-R-C-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Cyclamen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pain-de-pourceau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son nom de Cyclamen vient de la forme de sa racine en cercle χύχλός ; le nom beaucoup moins poétique de pain de pourceau témoigne du goût qu'ont les porcs pour son bulbe, celui d’arthanite lui a été donné par les Arabes.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.