pourlingue
The verdict
“pourlingue” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pourri.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourlingue · pourlingue · French
pourlingue · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | pourlingue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pourlingue » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pourlingue is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pourri.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pourlingue in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 pourlingue, spelled P-O-U-R-L-I-N-G-U-E.
Definition
- 1Pourri.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pourlingue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, je le redis, c'est l'intention qui compte. Le problème, c'est qu'on pourra même pas le revendre sur eBay, ton cadeau pourlingue.
Je hochai la tête en mâchant mes cornflakes et en évitant les rondelles brunâtres pourlingues.
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.