welsh terrier
\wɛlʃ tɛ.ʁje\
The verdict
“welsh terrier” 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Terrier gallois (race de chien).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | welsh terrier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \wɛlʃ tɛ.ʁje\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “welsh terrier” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for welsh terrier is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \wɛlʃ tɛ.ʁje\. 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: "Terrier gallois (race de chien).".
No misspelling variants are generated for welsh terrier 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 welsh terrier, spelled W-E-L-S-H- -T-E-R-R-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Terrier gallois (race de chien).
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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- The one correct French spelling is W-E-L-S-H- -T-E-R-R-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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