Po

\po:\

/\po:\/ noun

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The verdict

“Po” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #5,801) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#5,801
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fesses, derrière.

Corpus desk

Index FR-po · Po · French

Po · rank #5,801 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #5,801
  • LEN-SHORT 2 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH PME

Nearest frequency peer: PME (-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.

Frequency neighbourhood for “Po”

Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)

corpus weight

What this shows Bars show where “Po” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Po vs pu
0% similar
Po vs PS
50% similar
Po vs PQ
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Po
PropertyValue
HeadwordPo
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\po:\
Letters2
Frequency rank#5,801
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Où “Po” se place dans la fréquence du français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Pose place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « PME » (#5,800), « poussée » (#5,802), « perdus » (#5,799). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for Po is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \po:\. Frequency #5,801 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Fesses, derrière.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for Po in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 Po, spelled P-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fesses, derrière.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Po appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ich bin auf den Po gefallen
  2. Viele Frauen hatten schon mal einen oder mehrere Momente in ihrem Sexleben, die nicht in Ordnung waren. (...) Kategorie: zu harter Klaps auf den Po, etwas zu inniger Zungenkuss oder Dirty Talk, der in Beleidigung kippt.

Synonyms

HinternHinterteilPodexPopoPöterGesäß

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Po"?
"Po" is spelled P-O. The IPA pronunciation is \po:\.
What does "Po" mean?
As a noun, "Po" means: Fesses, derrière.
What words are commonly confused with "Po"?
"Po" is commonly confused with "pu", "PS", "PQ". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Po"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Po" is \po:\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Po" come from?
"Po" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list