peste rouge
\pɛst ʁuʒ\
The verdict
“peste rouge” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index FR-peste-rouge · peste rouge · French
peste rouge · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | peste rouge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛst ʁuʒ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « peste rouge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
peste rouge is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛst ʁuʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how peste rouge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’antibolchevisme n’est plus à la mode en Allemagne. Et pour cause. Finies les philippiques contre le régime des Soviets, contre les révolutionnaires et les juifs qui l’établirent en Russie ; finies les imprécations contre la peste rouge…
Synonyms
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.