poignarder
\pwa.ɲaʁ.de\
The verdict
“poignarder” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,744. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,744
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Frapper, blesser ou tuer avec un poignard.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poignarder · poignarder · French
poignarder · rank #30,744 · 15 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,744
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pléthore
Nearest frequency peer: pléthore (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « poignarder »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plata
plata
69,260 corpus weight
- pliée
pliée
69,259 corpus weight
- pléthore
pléthore
69,258 corpus weight
- poignarder
poignarder
69,257 corpus weight
- polonaises
polonaises
69,256 corpus weight
- pondération
pondération
69,255 corpus weight
What this shows « poignarder » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | poignarder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pwa.ɲaʁ.de\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #30,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poignarder »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around poignarder (IPA \pwa.ɲaʁ.de\), averb. Corpus frequency is #30,744 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for poignarder, with forms such as "opignarder", "piognarder", and "poginarder". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "poignards", "poignard", "poignardé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is poignarder, spelled P-O-I-G-N-A-R-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Frapper, blesser ou tuer avec un poignard.
- 2Causer une extrême douleur, une extrême affliction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poignarder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons dit ailleurs que la place sur laquelle existait l'ancien Opéra devait recevoir un monument expiatoire pour le Duc de Berry, poignardé par Louvel, au sortir du spectacle ; […].
Pareille à la Mallonia déshonorée par Tibère et se présentant devant le sénat romain pour accuser son violateur, avant de se poignarder en son désespoir, Henriette entra dans la salle des austères.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opignarder
- piognarder
- poginarder
- poiganrder
- poiggnarder
- poignadrer
- poignardder
- poignarderr
- poignardre
- poignaredr
- poignarrder
- poignnarder
- poignrader
- poingarder
- ppoignarder
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poignarder - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).