peste rouge

/\pɛst ʁuʒ\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

peste rouge is aFrenchnoun. It means: 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... Pronounced \pɛst ʁuʒ\.

Key facts for peste rouge
PropertyValue
Headwordpeste rouge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɛst ʁuʒ\
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

peste rouge 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 rouge is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for peste rouge 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 rouge, spelled P-E-S-T-E- -R-O-U-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    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 répand.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "peste rouge"?
"peste rouge" is spelled P-E-S-T-E- -R-O-U-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɛst ʁuʒ\.
What does "peste rouge" mean?
As a noun, "peste rouge" means: 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...
How do you pronounce "peste rouge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "peste rouge" is \pɛst ʁuʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "peste rouge" 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.