poi
\pɔj\
The verdict
“poi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #40,426) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #40,426
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plat polynésien de consistance pâteuse à semi-fluide, mélange de plusieurs fruits ou légumes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poi · poi · French
poi · rank #40,426 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,426
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleuvent
Nearest frequency peer: pleuvent (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « poi »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- pipeau
pipeau
59,578 corpus weight
- pitoyables
pitoyables
59,577 corpus weight
- pleuvent
pleuvent
59,576 corpus weight
- poi
poi
59,575 corpus weight
- pollens
pollens
59,574 corpus weight
- poucet
poucet
59,573 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « poi » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | poi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔj\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #40,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « poi »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for poi is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pɔj\. Frequency #40,426 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Plat polynésien de consistance pâteuse à semi-fluide, mélange de plusieurs fruits ou légumes.".
Zero misspellings are on record for poi in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is poi, spelled P-O-I.
Definition
- 1Plat polynésien de consistance pâteuse à semi-fluide, mélange de plusieurs fruits ou légumes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme hors-d’œuvre, il y avait du poisson crû […] et aussi du « poi » de taro qui est le plat favori des Hawaïens et était de la purée de taro mélangée à des bananes.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).