poêlée
\pwa.le\
The verdict
“poêlée” is uncommon French (frequency #77,810 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,810
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contenu d’une poêle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poelee · poêlée · French
poêlée · rank #77,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,810
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poverty
Nearest frequency peer: poverty (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « poêlée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- porteras
porteras
22,196 corpus weight
- posséda
posséda
22,195 corpus weight
- poudrier
poudrier
22,194 corpus weight
- pourrave
pourrave
22,193 corpus weight
- poverty
poverty
22,192 corpus weight
- poêlée
poêlée
22,191 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poêlée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poêlée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poêlée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poêlée is uncommon French at frequency #77,810 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pwa.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Contenu d’une poêle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for poêlée, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is poêlée, spelled P-O-Ê-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Contenu d’une poêle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poêlée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une poêlée de champignons.
Il lui servit le reste de salade d’endives avec des noix et des morceaux de comté et partagea une poêlée de champignons de Paris frais.
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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