Poirier
"poirier" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Poirier” is uncommon English (frequency #53,172 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,172
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A habitational surname from French.
Corpus desk
Index EN-poirier · Poirier · English
Poirier · rank #53,172 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,172
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH playmaking
Nearest frequency peer: playmaking (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “Poirier”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pineal
pineal
46,832 corpus weight
- planking
planking
46,831 corpus weight
- playmaking
playmaking
46,830 corpus weight
- Poirier
Poirier
46,829 corpus weight
- poopy
poopy
46,828 corpus weight
- postmenopau…
postmenopausal
46,826 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Poirier” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Poirier |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,172 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Poirier” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Poirier is uncommon English at frequency #53,172 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A habitational surname from French.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Poirier, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French Poirier, from poirier (“pear tree”). The correct English form is Poirier, spelled P-O-I-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1A habitational surname from French.
Etymology
Borrowed from French Poirier, from poirier (“pear tree”).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).