pour le roi de Prusse

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pour le roi de Prusse is 21 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \puʁ lə ʁwa də pʁys\. 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: "Sans tirer de bénéfice, en pure perte.".

No misspelling variants are generated for pour le roi de Prusse 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 pour le roi de Prusse, spelled P-O-U-R- -L-E- -R-O-I- -D-E- -P-R-U-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.