poet
\poˈet\
The verdict
“poet” is uncommon French (frequency #74,284 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,284
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poet · poet · French
poet · rank #74,284 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,284
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plébiscitent
Nearest frequency peer: plébiscitent (-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 « poet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pitreries
pitreries
25,720 corpus weight
- planchette
planchette
25,719 corpus weight
- plébiscitent
plébiscitent
25,718 corpus weight
- poet
poet
25,717 corpus weight
- pointa
pointa
25,716 corpus weight
- polaroïd
polaroïd
25,715 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \poˈet\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poet is uncommon French at frequency #74,284 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \poˈet\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poète.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for poet, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is poet, spelled P-O-E-T.
Definition
- 1Poète.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Poet este un autor care compune versuri : un poète est un auteur qui compose des vers.
Mihai Eminescu a fost un poet român : Mihai Eminescu était un poète Roumain.
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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