porte-parole
\pɔʁ.tə.pa.ʁɔl\
The verdict
“porte-parole” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui porte la parole, les revendications, les doléances, pour une assemblée, pour une compagnie, pour une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porte-parole · porte-parole · French
porte-parole · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 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-parole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tə.pa.ʁɔl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « porte-parole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
porte-parole is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.tə.pa.ʁɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for porte-parole, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is porte-parole, spelled P-O-R-T-E---P-A-R-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Celui qui porte la parole, les revendications, les doléances, pour une assemblée, pour une compagnie, pour une personne.
- 2Objet qui exprime une réalité plus vaste que lui-même, liée à un peuple ou une époque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porte-parole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si Dris Ben-Aâlem, le caïd el-mechouar, gouverneur de la cour, commandant de la garde chérifienne, porte-parole du Sultan, était un mulâtre gigantesque à voix stentorienne.
Cette mécanique que Buridan enseignait rue du Fouarre, aux environs de 1350, pénétra dans l’Italie de la Renaissance, par l’entremise de Jules César Scaliger, qui en fut le porte-parole.
This word in other languages
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.