Poitiers
/ˈpwɑːtɪ.eɪ/
"poitiers" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Poitiers” is uncommon English (frequency #63,898 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,898
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the capital of Vienne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, France.
Corpus desk
Index EN-poitiers · Poitiers · English
Poitiers · rank #63,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,898
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pollinator
Nearest frequency peer: pollinator (+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 “Poitiers”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pitifully
pitifully
36,108 corpus weight
- playgroup
playgroup
36,105 corpus weight
- Poitiers
Poitiers
36,103 corpus weight
- pollinator
pollinator
36,102 corpus weight
- polycrystal…
polycrystalline
36,101 corpus weight
- porphyry
porphyry
36,099 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Poitiers” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Poitiers |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈpwɑːtɪ.eɪ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Poitiers” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Poitiers is uncommon English at frequency #63,898 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈpwɑːtɪ.eɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city, the capital of Vienne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, France.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Poitiers in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Directly borrowed from French Poitiers, Middle French Poictiers, from Old French Peitiers, from Latin Pictāva, Pictāvium, Pictāvis, after the Pictones, the Gaulish tribe inhabiting the region. The correct English form is Poitiers, spelled P-O-I-T-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1A city, the capital of Vienne department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, France.
Etymology
Directly borrowed from French Poitiers, Middle French Poictiers, from Old French Peitiers, from Latin Pictāva, Pictāvium, Pictāvis, after the Pictones, the Gaulish tribe inhabiting the region.
This word in other languages
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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