petit ours marsupial
\pə.ti.t‿uʁs maʁ.sy.pjal\
The verdict
“petit ours marsupial” 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
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonyme de koala.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | petit ours marsupial |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pə.ti.t‿uʁs maʁ.sy.pjal\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “petit ours marsupial” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for petit ours marsupial is 20 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pə.ti.t‿uʁs maʁ.sy.pjal\. 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: "Synonyme de koala.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for petit ours marsupial, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is petit ours marsupial, spelled P-E-T-I-T- -O-U-R-S- -M-A-R-S-U-P-I-A-L.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de koala.
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-T-I-T- -O-U-R-S- -M-A-R-S-U-P-I-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.