porte-bonheur
\pɔʁt.bɔ.nœʁ\
The verdict
“porte-bonheur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui porte chance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porte-bonheur · porte-bonheur · French
porte-bonheur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porte-bonheur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔʁt.bɔ.nœʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
porte-bonheur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔʁt.bɔ.nœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui porte chance.".
No misspelling variants are generated for porte-bonheur in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 porte-bonheur, spelled P-O-R-T-E---B-O-N-H-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui porte chance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porte-bonheur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un fer à cheval porte-bonheur, cloué sur la muraille, indiquait la demeure d’Honoré Demasure, le communiste.
On n’imagine pas, aujourd’hui, qu’un tel pays existe […] à cause de cette histoire d’arbre porte-bonheur à laquelle les hommes et les femmes croient toujours alors que, comme la plupart des particuliers que nous rencontrons quotidiennement, ils vivent à l’aube du XXIᵉ siècle.
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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.