poussée de fièvre
The verdict
“poussée de fièvre” 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
- 17
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Augmentation rapide de la température du corps, signe qu’il est en train de lutter contre une maladie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poussée de fièvre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.se də fjɛvʁ\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “poussée de fièvre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poussée de fièvre is 17 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pu.se də fjɛvʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for poussée de fièvre 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 poussée de fièvre, spelled P-O-U-S-S-É-E- -D-E- -F-I-È-V-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Augmentation rapide de la température du corps, signe qu’il est en train de lutter contre une maladie.
- 2Augmentation soudaine d’activité.
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Using “poussée de fièvre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-U-S-S-É-E- -D-E- -F-I-È-V-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pu.se də fjɛvʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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