porte coupe-feu
The verdict
“porte coupe-feu” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Porte conçue pour résister un maximum de temps à la progression du feu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | porte coupe-feu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁt kup.fø\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “porte coupe-feu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for porte coupe-feu is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔʁt kup.fø\. 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: "Porte conçue pour résister un maximum de temps à la progression du feu.".
No misspelling variants are generated for porte coupe-feu in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 porte coupe-feu, spelled P-O-R-T-E- -C-O-U-P-E---F-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Porte conçue pour résister un maximum de temps à la progression du feu.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-R-T-E- -C-O-U-P-E---F-E-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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