poêle à frire
The verdict
“poêle à frire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ustensile (plat) pour frire les aliments.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poele-a-frire · poêle à frire · French
poêle à frire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 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 | poêle à frire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
poêle à frire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for poêle à frire, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 à frire, spelled P-O-Ê-L-E- -À- -F-R-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ustensile (plat) pour frire les aliments.
- 2Détecteur de métaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poêle à frire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chauffez la quasi-totalité de l’huile d'olive dans une grande poêle à frire, à feu vif.
Les riches n’imagineraient pas la simplicité de la batterie de cuisine qui consistait en une cuisinière, un chaudron, un gril, une casserole, deux ou trois marabouts, et une poêle à frire.
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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.