poignet
\pwa.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“poignet” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,723. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,723
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Articulation par laquelle l’avant-bras se joint à la main.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poignet · poignet · French
poignet · rank #9,723 · 10 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,723
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleurs
Nearest frequency peer: pleurs (-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 « poignet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- philadelphie
philadelphie
90,281 corpus weight
- plains
plains
90,280 corpus weight
- pleurs
pleurs
90,279 corpus weight
- poignet
poignet
90,278 corpus weight
- pointes
pointes
90,277 corpus weight
- profitant
profitant
90,276 corpus weight
What this shows « poignet » 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 | poignet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poignet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around poignet (IPA \pwa.ɲɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,723 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for poignet, with forms such as "opignet", "piognet", and "poginet". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "point", "poignets", "peigne", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is poignet, spelled P-O-I-G-N-E-T.
Definition
- 1Articulation par laquelle l’avant-bras se joint à la main.
- 2Petite pièce d’étoffe taillée transversalement et qui termine la manche d’une chemise, d’un corsage, d’une robe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poignet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je te tendrai mon poignet où s’est gravée la douceur de ta bouche, et tu prendras ma ceinture pour l’attacher au tien.
À Armenonville, à une table voisine de la nôtre, un sous-lieutenant de dragons enlace de son bras le buste de sa trop bruyante compagne et laisse voir ainsi au poignet un tatouage d’escarpe…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opignet
- piognet
- poginet
- poigent
- poiggnet
- poignett
- poignnet
- poignte
- poinget
- ppoignet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poignet - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "poignet", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).