# poetry

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈpəʊ.ɪ.tɹi/ · frequency rank #3,646

## Definitions
1. Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
2. A poet's literary production.
3. An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.

## Etymology
From Middle English poetrye, poetrie, a borrowing from Old French pöeterie, pöetrie, from Medieval Latin poētria, from poēta (“poet”), from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, “poet; author; maker”). Displaced native Old English lēoþcræft.

## Easily confused with
- **poets** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poetry-vs-poets)
- **potty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poetry-vs-potty)
- **pretty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poetry-vs-pretty)
- **pottery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poetry-vs-pottery)
- **portray** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poetry-vs-portray)
- **poultry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poetry-vs-poultry)
- **poet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poet-vs-poetry)
- **Petr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/petr-vs-poetry)
- **perry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/perry-vs-poetry)
- **petty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/petty-vs-poetry)
- **petra** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/petra-vs-poetry)
- **piety** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/piety-vs-poetry)
- **petri** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/petri-vs-poetry)
- **Petey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/petey-vs-poetry)
- **poetic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poetic-vs-poetry)
- **pastry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pastry-vs-poetry)
- **pantry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pantry-vs-poetry)
- **paltry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/paltry-vs-poetry)

## Common misspellings (9)
`opetry`, `peotry`, `poerty`, `poetrry`, `poetryy`, `poettry`, `poetyr`, `potery`, `ppoetry`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/poetry