peste bovine
\pɛs.t(ə) bɔ.vin\
The verdict
“peste bovine” 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
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Une maladie infectieuse virale très contagieuse, extrêmement dangereuse, causée par le virus bovipestique ou Rinderpest virus du genre Morbivirus, surtout aux bovins domestiques et à quelques bovin...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peste bovine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛs.t(ə) bɔ.vin\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “peste bovine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for peste bovine is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛs.t(ə) bɔ.vin\. 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: "Une maladie infectieuse virale très contagieuse, extrêmement dangereuse, causée par le virus bovipestique ou Rinderpest virus du genre Morbivirus, surtout aux bovins domestiques et à quelques bovin...".
No misspelling variants are generated for peste bovine 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 peste bovine, spelled P-E-S-T-E- -B-O-V-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Une maladie infectieuse virale très contagieuse, extrêmement dangereuse, causée par le virus bovipestique ou Rinderpest virus du genre Morbivirus, surtout aux bovins domestiques et à quelques bovins sauvages, caractérisée par de la fièvre, des lésions de la bouche, de la diarrhée, des nécroses lymphoïdes et une forte mortalité.
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Using “peste bovine”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-E-S-T-E- -B-O-V-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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