peste porcine africaine
\pɛst pɔʁ.si.n‿a.fʁi.kɛn\
The verdict
“peste porcine africaine” 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
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Maladie contagieuse très grave du porc et des porcins sauvages, transmise par des tiques molles, que le laboratoire peut distinguer de la peste porcine classique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peste porcine africaine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛst pɔʁ.si.n‿a.fʁi.kɛn\ |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “peste porcine africaine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for peste porcine africaine is 23 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛst pɔʁ.si.n‿a.fʁi.kɛn\. 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: "Maladie contagieuse très grave du porc et des porcins sauvages, transmise par des tiques molles, que le laboratoire peut distinguer de la peste porcine classique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for peste porcine africaine 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 porcine africaine, spelled P-E-S-T-E- -P-O-R-C-I-N-E- -A-F-R-I-C-A-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maladie contagieuse très grave du porc et des porcins sauvages, transmise par des tiques molles, que le laboratoire peut distinguer de la peste porcine classique.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-E-S-T-E- -P-O-R-C-I-N-E- -A-F-R-I-C-A-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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