pocillateur
\pɔ.si.ja.tœʁ\
The verdict
“pocillateur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Esclave chargé de remplir les coupes des convives, échanson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pocillateur · pocillateur · French
pocillateur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | pocillateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.si.ja.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pocillateur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pocillateur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.si.ja.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pocillateur, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 pocillateur, spelled P-O-C-I-L-L-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Esclave chargé de remplir les coupes des convives, échanson.
- 2Ivrogne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pocillateur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un pocillateur debout, vêtu d’une tunique succincte, couronné de laurier et chaussé de bottines, tient une phiale et une corne d’abondance surmontée d’un croissant.
Un petit pocillateur vient renouveler la provision de liquide placée sur la table à trois pieds.
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.