peste rouge
\pɛst ʁuʒ\
The verdict
“peste rouge” 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
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Expression employée (notamment dans un discours anticommuniste) pour désigner le communisme, le bolchevisme ou, plus largement, des idées et mouvements d’extrême gauche, assimilés à un fléau qui se...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peste rouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛst ʁuʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “peste rouge” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for peste rouge is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛst ʁuʒ\. 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: "Expression employée (notamment dans un discours anticommuniste) pour désigner le communisme, le bolchevisme ou, plus largement, des idées et mouvements d’extrême gauche, assimilés à un fléau qui se...".
No misspelling variants are generated for peste rouge in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is peste rouge, spelled P-E-S-T-E- -R-O-U-G-E.
Definition
- 1Expression employée (notamment dans un discours anticommuniste) pour désigner le communisme, le bolchevisme ou, plus largement, des idées et mouvements d’extrême gauche, assimilés à un fléau qui se répand.
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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.
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Using “peste rouge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-S-T-E- -R-O-U-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɛst ʁuʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.