porte-poisse
\pɔʁ.tə.pwas\
The verdict
“porte-poisse” 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) - Personne qui provoque la malchance, qui porte malheur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-porte-poisse · porte-poisse · French
porte-poisse · 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-poisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tə.pwas\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
porte-poisse is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.tə.pwas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui provoque la malchance, qui porte malheur.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for porte-poisse, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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-poisse, spelled P-O-R-T-E---P-O-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui provoque la malchance, qui porte malheur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how porte-poisse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« Je vous donne l’ordre de boucler ce porte-poisse », a-t-il dit.
Le porte-poisse se repère à une série de séquences gestuelles sur lesquelles nous aurons l’occasion de revenir au cours de cet ouvrage.
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.