poids
French, noun/pwa/
poids is spelled P-O-I-D-S (5 letters) and appears 79 times per million words in written French, the 1,060th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Poids is a French masculine noun meaning “weight” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Force exercée par la pesanteur ; force qui attire les objets vers le sol”.
What does poids mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineweight
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Force exercée par la pesanteur ; force qui attire les objets vers le sol. 2. Pesanteur, qualité de ce qui est pesant. 3. Masse. 4. Masses de cuivre, de fer ou de plomb, d’une masse réglée et connue, dont on se sert pour mesurer, avec une balance, un trébuchet, combien une chose pèse.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce poids?
- /pwa/
- /pwɑ/
- \pwa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to poids
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is poids in French?
poids appears 79 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).