poids
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,071
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
poids is aFrenchnoun. It means: Force exercée par la pesanteur ; force qui attire les objets vers le sol. Pronounced \pwa\. It ranks #1,071 in French word frequency. Often confused with POS and puis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poids |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,071 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poids is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwa\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,071 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for poids, with forms such as "opids", "piods", and "podis". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "POS", "puis", "pris", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is poids, spelled P-O-I-D-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Force exercée par la pesanteur ; force qui attire les objets vers le sol.
- 2Pesanteur, qualité de ce qui est pesant.
- 3Masse.
- 4Masses 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.
- 5Masse de cuivre, de fonte, etc., que l’on suspend aux chaînes, aux cordes d’une horloge, pour imprimer un mouvement au mécanisme.
- 6Ce qui pèse, oppresse, chagrine, embarrasse.
- 7Importance ; considération ; force.
- 8Boule de métal que l’on lance en poussant, à cause de sa lourdeur.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opids,piods,podis,poidds,poidss,poisd,ppoids
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "poids"
Frequency rank: #1,071 in French
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