téléphone portable
\te.le.fɔn pɔʁ.tabl\
The verdict
“téléphone portable” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Téléphone de petite taille, sans fil, et facilement transportable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | téléphone portable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \te.le.fɔn pɔʁ.tabl\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “téléphone portable” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for téléphone portable is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \te.le.fɔn pɔʁ.tabl\. 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: "Téléphone de petite taille, sans fil, et facilement transportable.".
téléphone portable has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is téléphone portable, spelled T-É-L-É-P-H-O-N-E- -P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Téléphone de petite taille, sans fil, et facilement transportable.
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 “téléphone portable”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is T-É-L-É-P-H-O-N-E- -P-O-R-T-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \te.le.fɔn pɔʁ.tabl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.