poésies

\pɔ.e.zi\

/\pɔ.e.zi\/ noun

The verdict

“poésies” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,833. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#18,833
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de poésie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-poesies · poésies · French

poésies · rank #18,833 · 10 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #18,833
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH private

Nearest frequency peer: private (+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 « poésies »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « poésies » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

poésies vs posés
57% similar
poésies vs postes
71% similar
poésies vs poètes
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for poésies
PropertyValue
Headwordpoésies
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔ.e.zi\
Letters7
Frequency rank#18,833
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poésies »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).poésiesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « private » (#18,834), « ponte » (#18,831), « productrice » (#18,835). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « poésies » est au #18,833. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around poésies (IPA \pɔ.e.zi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,833 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de poésie.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for poésies, with forms such as "opésies", "poesies", and "poséies". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "posés", "postes", "poètes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is poésies, spelled P-O-É-S-I-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de poésie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how poésies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. D’ailleurs, elle relut les poésies de Canalis, vers excessivement pipeurs, pleins d’hypocrisie, et qui veulent un mot d’analyse, ne fût-ce que pour expliquer son engouement.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opésies
  • poesies
  • poséies
  • poéises
  • poéseis
  • poésiess
  • poésise
  • poéssies
  • ppoésies
  • péosies

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poésies - 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.

opésies2poesies1poséies2poéises2poéseis2poésiess1poésise2poéssies1
Edit distance from "poésies"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poésies"?
"poésies" is spelled P-O-É-S-I-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔ.e.zi\.
What does "poésies" mean?
As a noun, "poésies" means: Pluriel de poésie.
What words are commonly confused with "poésies"?
"poésies" is commonly confused with "posés", "postes", "poètes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "poésies"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poésies" is \pɔ.e.zi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poésies" come from?
"poésies" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poésies", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list