poignées
\pwa.ɲe\
The verdict
“poignées” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,114. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,114
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de poignée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poignees · poignées · French
poignées · rank #21,114 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,114
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH placards
Nearest frequency peer: placards (-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 « poignées »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pif
pif
78,890 corpus weight
- piqûres
piqûres
78,889 corpus weight
- placards
placards
78,888 corpus weight
- poignées
poignées
78,887 corpus weight
- polaires
polaires
78,886 corpus weight
- ponctuation
ponctuation
78,885 corpus weight
What this shows « poignées » 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 | poignées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa.ɲe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poignées »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around poignées (IPA \pwa.ɲe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,114 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de poignée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for poignées, with forms such as "opignées", "piognées", and "poginées". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "poignet", "pointes", "poignets", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is poignées, spelled P-O-I-G-N-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de poignée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poignées appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lever, transporter, entabler bas, désentabler et reposer au sol une petite caisse avec poignées.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opignées
- piognées
- poginées
- poiggnées
- poignees
- poigneés
- poignnées
- poignéess
- poignése
- poigénes
- poingées
- ppoignées
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poignées - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poignées", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).