poetry
\ˈpoʊ.ətˌɹi\
The verdict
“poetry” is uncommon French (frequency #64,695 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,695
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poésie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poetry · poetry · French
poetry · rank #64,695 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,695
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poitrail
Nearest frequency peer: poitrail (+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 « poetry »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pitbulls
pitbulls
35,309 corpus weight
- plafonnier
plafonnier
35,308 corpus weight
- poetry
poetry
35,306 corpus weight
- poitrail
poitrail
35,305 corpus weight
- Politik
Politik
35,304 corpus weight
- poll
poll
35,303 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poetry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poetry |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpoʊ.ətˌɹi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,695 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poetry » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poetry is uncommon French at frequency #64,695 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpoʊ.ətˌɹi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poésie.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for poetry, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is poetry, spelled P-O-E-T-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Poésie.
Synonyms
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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