portrait craché
\pɔʁ.tʁɛ kʁa.ʃe\
The verdict
“portrait craché” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sosie (de quelqu’un).
Corpus desk
Index FR-portrait-crache · portrait craché · French
portrait craché · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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 | portrait craché |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tʁɛ kʁa.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « portrait craché » en français
Rare enough to double-check
portrait craché is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.tʁɛ kʁa.ʃe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sosie (de quelqu’un).".
portrait craché doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is portrait craché, spelled P-O-R-T-R-A-I-T- -C-R-A-C-H-É.
Definition
- 1Sosie (de quelqu’un).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how portrait craché appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce second individu en appela un troisième, […] qui, après nous avoir considérés avec la même curiosité que les deux autres s'écria : — God ! god ! il le ressemble comme deux gouttes d'eau ! — C'est son portrait craché , dit le gros homme avec un accent wallon . — Och ! il ressemble pas du tout, dit le troisième.
Ce qui est singulier, c'est que ce Bogdanovitsch , au dire de ses contemporains, était au moral comme au physique le portrait craché de Lafontaine.
This word in other languages
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