porte-traîne
\pɔʁ.tə.tʁɛːn\
The verdict
“porte-traîne” 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 May 6, 2026) - Genre d'oiseaux-mouches nectarivores comprenant deux espèces de la sous-famille des trochilinés à long relativement court et incurvé, à plumage iridescent vert émeraude, à très longue queue profond...
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Index FR-porte-traine · porte-traîne · French
porte-traîne · 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-traîne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tə.tʁɛːn\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “porte-traîne” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
porte-traîne is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.tə.tʁɛːn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre d'oiseaux-mouches nectarivores comprenant deux espèces de la sous-famille des trochilinés à long relativement court et incurvé, à plumage iridescent vert émeraude, à très longue queue profond...".
Zero misspellings are on record for porte-traîne in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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-traîne, spelled P-O-R-T-E---T-R-A-Î-N-E.
Definition
- 1Genre d'oiseaux-mouches nectarivores comprenant deux espèces de la sous-famille des trochilinés à long relativement court et incurvé, à plumage iridescent vert émeraude, à très longue queue profondément fourchue dû aux longueurs étagées des rectrices, les deux rectrices les plus externes étant les plus longues et pouvant former jusqu'à 75 à 80% de la longueur totale de l'oiseau mâle, et que l'on retrouve dans la forêt de nuage néotropicale et dans les forêts montagneuses humides de plus basse altitude (genre Lesbia).
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