porridge
\pɔ.ʁidʒ\
The verdict
“porridge” is uncommon French (frequency #64,011 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,011
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bouillie de flocons d’avoine ou de maïs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porridge · porridge · French
porridge · rank #64,011 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,011
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pondérale
Nearest frequency peer: pondérale (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « porridge »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ponctuer
ponctuer
35,992 corpus weight
- pondérale
pondérale
35,991 corpus weight
- porridge
porridge
35,990 corpus weight
- positionnem…
positionnements
35,989 corpus weight
- possédais
possédais
35,988 corpus weight
- postait
postait
35,987 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « porridge » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porridge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.ʁidʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,011 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « porridge » en français
Rare enough to double-check
porridge is uncommon French at frequency #64,011 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.ʁidʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bouillie de flocons d’avoine ou de maïs.".
porridge doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is porridge, spelled P-O-R-R-I-D-G-E.
Definition
- 1Bouillie de flocons d’avoine ou de maïs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porridge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’entrai sans frapper et le trouvai assis avec son Indien, devant un bol de porridge au maïs et au lait. L’intérieur de la maison était propre et nu ; quelques livres sur un rayon en faisaient le seul ornement.
Au petit déjeuner, j’eus à nouveau du paprika, ainsi qu’une espèce de porridge fait de farine de maïs qu’on appelle mamaliga, et d’aubergines farcies — plat excellent qui porte le nom de impletata.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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