pogrom
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#65,419
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
pogrom is aFrenchnoun. It means: Mouvement antisémite sous le régime tsariste de Russie de 1880 à 1905, encouragé par les autorités et caractérisé par des violences envers les Juifs : pillages, meurtres… Pronounced \pɔ.ɡʁɔm\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pogrom |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.ɡʁɔm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pogrom is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.ɡʁɔm\. Corpus data places it at rank #65,419 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pogrom 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 pogrom, spelled P-O-G-R-O-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mouvement antisémite sous le régime tsariste de Russie de 1880 à 1905, encouragé par les autorités et caractérisé par des violences envers les Juifs : pillages, meurtres…
- 2Mouvement antisémite comparable, organisé par d’autres régimes politiques.
- 3Soulèvement violent et meurtrier contre des Juifs.
- 4Soulèvement violent et meurtrier mené contre les membres d’une autre religion.
- 5Soulèvement violent et meurtrier contre des groupes de personnes, suscité par le racisme ou l’intolérance.
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Frequency rank: #65,419 in French
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