poêle
\pwal\
The verdict
“poêle” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,837. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,837
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ustensile de cuisine, rond ou ovale, peu profond et à bords évasés, muni d’une longue queue et dont on se sert pour cuire les aliments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poele · poêle · French
poêle · rank #12,837 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,837
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prairie
Nearest frequency peer: prairie (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « poêle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pivot
pivot
87,167 corpus weight
- plane
plane
87,166 corpus weight
- poêle
poêle
87,164 corpus weight
- prairie
prairie
87,163 corpus weight
- produisant
produisant
87,162 corpus weight
- project
project
87,161 corpus weight
What this shows « poêle » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | poêle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwal\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #12,837 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poêle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around poêle (IPA \pwal\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,837 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for poêle, with forms such as "opêle", "poele", and "polêe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pol", "pose", "pote", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is poêle, spelled P-O-Ê-L-E.
Definition
- 1Ustensile de cuisine, rond ou ovale, peu profond et à bords évasés, muni d’une longue queue et dont on se sert pour cuire les aliments.
- 2Nom donné à divers récipients servant à faire fondre la cire, l’étain, le plomb, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poêle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mᵐᵉ Chappaz jeta dans la poêle pleine d’huile bouillante les pommes de terre coupées en tranches minces […]
Lorsque le soleil commençait sa lente descente vers l’ouest, Djida se relâchait un peu et souvent nous fricassait des abattis de volailles dans une poêle à long manche qu'elle déposait à même les braises […]
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opêle
- poele
- polêe
- poêel
- poêlle
- ppoêle
- pêole
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poêle - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).