porte-bonheur
\pɔʁt.bɔ.nœʁ\
The verdict
“porte-bonheur” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui porte chance.
| 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) |
Where “porte-bonheur” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for porte-bonheur is 13 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔʁt.bɔ.nœʁ\. 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: "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.
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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.
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Using “porte-bonheur”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-R-T-E---B-O-N-H-E-U-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɔʁt.bɔ.nœʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.