rouget du porc
\ʁu.ʒɛ dy pɔʁ\
The verdict
“rouget du porc” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Maladie contagieuse, qui se caractérise par des plaques érythémateuses inflammatoires violacées, avec douleur, sensation de brûlure et prurit au site d’inoculation. Elle s’attrape généralement en s...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rouget du porc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁu.ʒɛ dy pɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rouget du porc” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for rouget du porc is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁu.ʒɛ dy pɔʁ\. 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: "Maladie contagieuse, qui se caractérise par des plaques érythémateuses inflammatoires violacées, avec douleur, sensation de brûlure et prurit au site d’inoculation. Elle s’attrape généralement en s...".
No misspelling variants are generated for rouget du porc 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 rouget du porc, spelled R-O-U-G-E-T- -D-U- -P-O-R-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Maladie contagieuse, qui se caractérise par des plaques érythémateuses inflammatoires violacées, avec douleur, sensation de brûlure et prurit au site d’inoculation. Elle s’attrape généralement en se piquant avec des os de porc ou des arrêtes de poisson. Elle est due à une bactérie nommée Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiæ.
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- The one correct French spelling is R-O-U-G-E-T- -D-U- -P-O-R-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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