raccoon dog
The verdict
“raccoon dog” 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
- 11
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Chien viverrin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raccoon dog |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɹə.ˈkun ˌdɔɡ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “raccoon dog” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for raccoon dog is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɹə.ˈkun ˌdɔɡ\. 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: "Chien viverrin.".
No misspelling variants are generated for raccoon dog 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 raccoon dog, spelled R-A-C-C-O-O-N- -D-O-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Chien viverrin.
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.
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Using “raccoon dog”
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- The one correct French spelling is R-A-C-C-O-O-N- -D-O-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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