podium
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,540
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
podium is aFrenchnoun. It means: Soubassement de peu d’élévation, faisant saillie sur le mur d’une chambre ou d’un bâtiment, et servant de plate-forme pour y placer certains objets. Pronounced \pɔ.djɔm\. It ranks #6,540 in French word frequency. Often confused with podiums.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | podium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.djɔm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for podium is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.djɔm\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,540 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for podium, with forms such as "opdium", "pdoium", and "poddium". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "podiums", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is podium, spelled P-O-D-I-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Soubassement de peu d’élévation, faisant saillie sur le mur d’une chambre ou d’un bâtiment, et servant de plate-forme pour y placer certains objets.
- 2Plateforme élevée face à l'arène, supportant les places d’honneur dans les cirques romains.
- 3Sorte d’estrade à trois places où s'exhibent les vainqueurs d’un concours sportif.
- 4Sorte de piste surélevée, sur laquelle défilent les mannequins lors des présentations de mode.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opdium,pdoium,poddium,podimu,podiumm,poduim,poidum,ppodium
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for podium
Misspelling Variants of "podium"
Frequency rank: #6,540 in French
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