porte-bouteille
\pɔʁ.tbu.tɛj\
The verdict
“porte-bouteille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de porte-bouteilles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porte-bouteille · porte-bouteille · French
porte-bouteille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 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-bouteille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tbu.tɛj\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
porte-bouteille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.tbu.tɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de porte-bouteilles.".
porte-bouteille doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is porte-bouteille, spelled P-O-R-T-E---B-O-U-T-E-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de porte-bouteilles.
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.