porte-monnaie
\pɔʁ.t(ə).mɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“porte-monnaie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. 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) - Petit sac ou étui (de cuir par exemple), généralement divisé en compartiments, où on met les pièces de monnaie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porte-monnaie · porte-monnaie · French
porte-monnaie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 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-monnaie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.t(ə).mɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
porte-monnaie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.t(ə).mɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petit sac ou étui (de cuir par exemple), généralement divisé en compartiments, où on met les pièces de monnaie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for porte-monnaie, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is porte-monnaie, spelled P-O-R-T-E---M-O-N-N-A-I-E.
Definition
- 1Petit sac ou étui (de cuir par exemple), généralement divisé en compartiments, où on met les pièces de monnaie.
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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.