poêle à bois
\pwa.l‿a bwa\
The verdict
“poêle à bois” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Foyer utilisé pour chauffer une maison ou un bâtiment grâce à la combustion du bois.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poêle à bois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa.l‿a bwa\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “poêle à bois” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poêle à bois is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwa.l‿a bwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
poêle à bois doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is poêle à bois, spelled P-O-Ê-L-E- -À- -B-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Foyer utilisé pour chauffer une maison ou un bâtiment grâce à la combustion du bois.
- 2Cuisinière au bois.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “poêle à bois”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-Ê-L-E- -À- -B-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pwa.l‿a bwa\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.