houille de poix
^((h aspiré))\uj də pwɑ\
The verdict
“houille de poix” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de houille piciforme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-houille-de-poix · houille de poix · French
houille de poix · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | houille de poix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h aspiré))\uj də pwɑ\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « houille de poix » en français
Rare enough to double-check
houille de poix is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h aspiré))\uj də pwɑ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de houille piciforme.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for houille de poix, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is houille de poix, spelled H-O-U-I-L-L-E- -D-E- -P-O-I-X.
Definition
- 1Variante de houille piciforme.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.