poignets
\pwa.ɲɛ\
The verdict
“poignets” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,284. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,284
- 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 poignet.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poignets · poignets · French
poignets · rank #18,284 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,284
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poignardé
Nearest frequency peer: poignardé (-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 « poignets »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- piqûre
piqûre
81,721 corpus weight
- poignardé
poignardé
81,718 corpus weight
- poignets
poignets
81,717 corpus weight
- polie
polie
81,716 corpus weight
- portuaire
portuaire
81,715 corpus weight
- praticien
praticien
81,714 corpus weight
What this shows « poignets » 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 | poignets |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa.ɲɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poignets »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around poignets (IPA \pwa.ɲɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,284 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de poignet.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for poignets, with forms such as "opignets", "piognets", and "poginets". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "points", "poigne", "poignée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is poignets, spelled P-O-I-G-N-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de poignet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poignets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En même temps que le plafond se déseffondre, une dizaine d’hommes en masque à gaz et combinaison radioprotectrice des années 1960, gants en caoutchouc hermétiquement fixés autour des poignets par des bracelets élastiques, se pressent à reculons vers l’entrée de la pièce pour retrouver la sécurité de l’extérieur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opignets
- piognets
- poginets
- poigents
- poiggnets
- poignest
- poignetss
- poignetts
- poignnets
- poigntes
- poingets
- ppoignets
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poignets - 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 "poignets", 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).