poignée
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,382
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
poignée is aFrenchnoun. It means: Quantité de matière qu’on peut prendre dans une main. Pronounced \pwa.ɲe\. It ranks #5,382 in French word frequency. Often confused with pointe and poignet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poignée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #5,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poignée is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwa.ɲe\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,382 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for poignée, with forms such as "opignée", "piognée", and "poginée". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "pointe", "poignet", "pointée", 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 poignée, spelled P-O-I-G-N-É-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Quantité de matière qu’on peut prendre dans une main.
- 2Petit nombre de personnes ou de choses.
- 3Partie d’un objet par laquelle on le saisit avec la main.
- 4Partie d’un objet par laquelle on le saisit avec la main.
- 5Morceau de tissu ou de cuir permettant de tenir un ustensile fort chaud, sans se brûler.
- 6Pièce permettant d'avoir une action manuelle sur un organe mécanique.
- 7Grand nombre d'atouts dans la main d'un joueur lors d'une partie de tarot qui permet d'obtenir un score bonus variant selon les versions (Elle peut être simple , double ou triple).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opignée,piognée,poginée,poiggnée,poignee,poigneé,poignnée,poigéne,poingée,ppoignée
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poignée
Misspelling Variants of "poignée"
Frequency rank: #5,382 in French
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