poésie
\pɔ.e.zi\
The verdict
“poésie” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #3,160 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #3,160
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (Traditionnellement) Art de faire des ouvrages en vers.
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 | poésie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.e.zi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “poésie” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poésie is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.e.zi\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,160 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for poésie, with forms such as "opésie", "poesie", and "poséie". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "pose", "poste", "poète", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is poésie, spelled P-O-É-S-I-E.
Definition
- 1(Traditionnellement) Art de faire des ouvrages en vers.
- 2À l’époque moderne, genre littéraire qui se caractérise par une exploration poussée des formes du langage et des potentialités du texte.
- 3Corpus d’œuvres poétiques partageant une caractéristique thématique, géographique, historique, etc.
- 4Art et manière de faire des vers, de la simple versification.
- 5Qualités essentielles au genre poétique.
- 6Dimension poétique (qui fait appel à un sens de l’esthétique et à des formes figurées) d’un ouvrage en prose.
- 7Liberté, richesse particulière aux pensées, aux expressions, aux tours que l’on emploie dans la poésie.
- 8Ce qu’il y a d’élevé, de touchant dans une œuvre, dans le caractère ou la beauté d’une personne, dans les aspects de la nature ou dans une situation.
- 9Ensemble des ouvrages en vers composés dans une langue, ou selon leurs caractères communs les plus généraux, ou des traits auxquels se reconnaît la manière d’un poète.
- 10Ouvrage en vers ; il ne se dit guère que des ouvrages de peu d’étendue et s’emploie surtout en parlant des modernes.
- 11Classe de cinquième secondaire, équivalente à la première française, où l’on enseigne la poésie.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opésie,poesie,poséie,poéise,poései,poéssie,ppoésie,péosie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poésie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “poésie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-É-S-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɔ.e.zi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “pose” - see the side-by-side comparison. poésie vs pose
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.