A wound rotor, such as a wound rotor for an electric machine, includes a shaft having a main axis. The shaft includes a manifold. The wound rotor also includes a winding wire and n poles wound and ordered with an ascending order number obtained by rotation about the main axis. The n wound poles can be distributed radially about the main axis. The n poles are wound with the wire in series in turn according to their ascending order numbers, the last pole, however, not being wound last.