peste blanche

/\pɛst blɑ̃ʃ\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

peste blanche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Maladie épidémique indéterminée. Pronounced \pɛst blɑ̃ʃ\.

Key facts for peste blanche
PropertyValue
Headwordpeste blanche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛst blɑ̃ʃ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

peste blanche is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for peste blanche is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛst blɑ̃ʃ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for peste blanche in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 peste blanche, spelled P-E-S-T-E- -B-L-A-N-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Maladie épidémique indéterminée.
  2. 2
    Surnom de la tuberculose.
  3. 3
    Ancien surnom de la maladie du charbon, de l’anthrax.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "peste blanche"?
"peste blanche" is spelled P-E-S-T-E- -B-L-A-N-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛst blɑ̃ʃ\.
What does "peste blanche" mean?
As a noun, "peste blanche" means: Maladie épidémique indéterminée.
How do you pronounce "peste blanche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "peste blanche" is \pɛst blɑ̃ʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "peste blanche" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.