pochoir
\pɔ.ʃwaʁ\
The verdict
“pochoir” is uncommon French (frequency #58,169 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,169
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Feuille découpée de façon que la découpure forme un dessin que l’on reproduit sur la surface d’un objet, en passant sur cette feuille une brosse chargée de couleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pochoir · pochoir · French
pochoir · rank #58,169 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,169
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plasticienne
Nearest frequency peer: plasticienne (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pochoir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plairont
plairont
41,835 corpus weight
- plantu
plantu
41,834 corpus weight
- plasticienne
plasticienne
41,833 corpus weight
- pochoir
pochoir
41,832 corpus weight
- pogroms
pogroms
41,831 corpus weight
- pollack
pollack
41,830 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pochoir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pochoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.ʃwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,169 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pochoir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pochoir is uncommon French at frequency #58,169 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.ʃwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
pochoir doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pochoir, spelled P-O-C-H-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Feuille découpée de façon que la découpure forme un dessin que l’on reproduit sur la surface d’un objet, en passant sur cette feuille une brosse chargée de couleur.
- 2Œuvre réalisée avec cette technique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pochoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un régiment d'ouvriers et pas mal de jeunes apprentis colorent les images au pochoir. Armés d'un formidable pinceau, de forme spéciale, ils trempent d'un mouvement rythmé dans un pot de couleur pour le passer sur le patron, […].
Je sais aujourd’hui que c’étaient des albums d’images d’Épinal coloriées au pochoir, ils dataient au moins de Napoléon III, on les regardait en mangeant notre quatre-heures qu’on avait apporté dans notre petit panier à rabattants, moi c’était toujours un petit pain au lait avec une barre de chocolat à la crème, toujours.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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