raccoon dogs
The verdict
“raccoon dogs” 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
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Pluriel de raccoon dog.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | raccoon dogs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɹə.ˈkun ˌdɔɡz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “raccoon dogs” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for raccoon dogs is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɹə.ˈkun ˌdɔɡz\. 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: "Pluriel de raccoon dog.".
No misspelling variants are generated for raccoon dogs 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 dogs, spelled R-A-C-C-O-O-N- -D-O-G-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de raccoon dog.
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 dogs”
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- The one correct French spelling is R-A-C-C-O-O-N- -D-O-G-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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