poisson rouge

/\pwa.sɔ̃ ʁuʒ\/ noun

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

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similar word pairs

poisson rouge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Espèce de poisson d’eau douce, de la famille des cyprinidés (Cyprinidae) voisin du carassin commun, poisson d'ornement, élevé dans des bassins et des aquariums. Pronounced \pwa.sɔ̃ ʁuʒ\.

Key facts for poisson rouge
PropertyValue
Headwordpoisson rouge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pwa.sɔ̃ ʁuʒ\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

poisson 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 poisson rouge is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwa.sɔ̃ 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: "Espèce de poisson d’eau douce, de la famille des cyprinidés (Cyprinidae) voisin du carassin commun, poisson d'ornement, élevé dans des bassins et des aquariums.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for poisson 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 poisson rouge, spelled P-O-I-S-S-O-N- -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
    Espèce de poisson d’eau douce, de la famille des cyprinidés (Cyprinidae) voisin du carassin commun, poisson d'ornement, élevé dans des bassins et des aquariums.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poisson rouge"?
"poisson rouge" is spelled P-O-I-S-S-O-N- -R-O-U-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pwa.sɔ̃ ʁuʒ\.
What does "poisson rouge" mean?
As a noun, "poisson rouge" means: Espèce de poisson d’eau douce, de la famille des cyprinidés (Cyprinidae) voisin du carassin commun, poisson d'ornement, élevé dans des bassins et des aquariums.
How do you pronounce "poisson rouge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poisson rouge" is \pwa.sɔ̃ ʁuʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poisson 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.