poisson
/pwa.sɔ̃/
The verdict
“poisson” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #87,117 among 6,028 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,117
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pez, pescado
Corpus desk
Index ES-poisson · poisson · Spanish
poisson · rank #87,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,117
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH pobló
Nearest frequency peer: pobló (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “poisson”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- plenilunio
plenilunio
12,887 corpus weight
- plin
plin
12,886 corpus weight
- pobló
pobló
12,885 corpus weight
- poisson
poisson
12,884 corpus weight
- polca
polca
12,883 corpus weight
- poliamor
poliamor
12,882 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “poisson” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poisson |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /pwa.sɔ̃/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “poisson” en español
Rare enough to double-check
poisson is uncommon Spanish at frequency #87,117 among 6,028 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /pwa.sɔ̃/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pez, pescado".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for poisson, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is poisson, spelled P-O-I-S-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Pez, pescado
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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