pornographie

/\pɔʁ.no.ɡʁa.fi\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Frequency Rank

#15,001

in French word usage

Misspellings

18

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

pornographie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Représentation explicite ou enregistrement d’images exposant l’intimité conçus pour provoquer une excitation sexuelle. Pronounced \pɔʁ.no.ɡʁa.fi\. Often confused with pornographique.

Key facts for pornographie
PropertyValue
Headwordpornographie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔʁ.no.ɡʁa.fi\
Letters12
Frequency rank#15,001
Misspellings tracked18
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pornographie in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pornographie is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔʁ.no.ɡʁa.fi\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,001 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for pornographie, with forms such as "oprnographie", "ponrographie", and "porngoraphie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pornographique", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 pornographie, spelled P-O-R-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Représentation explicite ou enregistrement d’images exposant l’intimité conçus pour provoquer une excitation sexuelle.
  2. 2
    Production, diffusion d’œuvres à caractère pornographique.
  3. 3
    Traité sur la prostitution.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: oprnographie,ponrographie,porngoraphie,pornnographie,pornogarphie,pornoggraphie,pornograhpie,pornographei,pornographhie,pornograpihe,pornograpphie,pornogrpahie,pornogrraphie,pornorgaphie,porongraphie,porrnographie,ppornographie,pronographie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pornographie

Misspelling Variants of "pornographie"

oprnographie12ponrographie12porngoraphie12pornnographie13pornogarphie12pornoggraphie13pornograhpie12pornographei12
Misspelling Variants of "pornographie"

Frequency rank: #15,001 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pornographie"?
"pornographie" is spelled P-O-R-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔʁ.no.ɡʁa.fi\.
What does "pornographie" mean?
As a noun, "pornographie" means: Représentation explicite ou enregistrement d’images exposant l’intimité conçus pour provoquer une excitation sexuelle.
What words are commonly confused with "pornographie"?
"pornographie" is commonly confused with "pornographique". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pornographie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pornographie" is \pɔʁ.no.ɡʁa.fi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pornographie" come from?
"pornographie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.