poe
The verdict
“poe” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,238) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,238
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Patte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poe · poe · French
poe · rank #20,238 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,238
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PJ
Nearest frequency peer: PJ (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « poe »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- pierce
pierce
79,766 corpus weight
- pioche
pioche
79,765 corpus weight
- PJ
PJ
79,764 corpus weight
- poe
poe
79,763 corpus weight
- polis
polis
79,762 corpus weight
- Pontoise
Pontoise
79,761 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « poe » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,238 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « poe »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for poe is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #20,238 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Patte.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for poe in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
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 poe, spelled P-O-E.
Definition
- 1Patte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant il virent le poe del grant lion
Chat mangereyt peysson, mes yl ne moyle poynt sa poue
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 "poe"?
What does "poe" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "poe"?
What language does "poe" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poe", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).