portrait-robot
\pɔʁ.tʁɛ.ʁɔ.bo\
The verdict
“portrait-robot” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Outil d'enquête en police judiciaire qui vise à faire le portrait le plus ressemblant possible du visage d’un criminel inconnu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-portrait-robot · portrait-robot · French
portrait-robot · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 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-robot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔʁ.tʁɛ.ʁɔ.bo\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « portrait-robot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
portrait-robot is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔʁ.tʁɛ.ʁɔ.bo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for portrait-robot in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is portrait-robot, spelled P-O-R-T-R-A-I-T---R-O-B-O-T.
Definition
- 1Outil d'enquête en police judiciaire qui vise à faire le portrait le plus ressemblant possible du visage d’un criminel inconnu.
- 2Personne rassemblant en elle différents éléments disparates.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how portrait-robot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le portrait-robot était dessiné, composé et redessiné à partir de bandes de photo (cheveux, yeux, nez, bouche, menton) en fonction des indications données par les victimes ou les témoins. Aujourd’hui, il existe des logiciels capables d’informatiser la création d’un portrait-robot.
Ce n’est plus un compositeur : c’est un portrait-robot du compositeur au vingtième siècle.
Synonyms
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.