poule pondeuse
\pul pɔ̃.døz\
The verdict
“poule pondeuse” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Femelle gallus gallus domesticus élevée dans le but de produire des œufs utilisés dans l’alimentation humaine. — (Wikipédia)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poule pondeuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pul pɔ̃.døz\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “poule pondeuse” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poule pondeuse is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pul pɔ̃.døz\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Femelle gallus gallus domesticus élevée dans le but de produire des œufs utilisés dans l’alimentation humaine. — (Wikipédia)".
No misspelling variants are generated for poule pondeuse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is poule pondeuse, spelled P-O-U-L-E- -P-O-N-D-E-U-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Femelle gallus gallus domesticus élevée dans le but de produire des œufs utilisés dans l’alimentation humaine. — (Wikipédia)
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-U-L-E- -P-O-N-D-E-U-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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