poignance
\pwa.ɲɑ̃s\
The verdict
“poignance” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de ce qui est poignant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poignance · poignance · French
poignance · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poignance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa.ɲɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poignance » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poignance is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pwa.ɲɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "État de ce qui est poignant.".
poignance doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is poignance, spelled P-O-I-G-N-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1État de ce qui est poignant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poignance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Montana Kid - The Stand Off, chantée avec Cuddy, est d'une poignance rare.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.