poil
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,432
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
poil is aFrenchnoun. It means: Filet délié qui croît sur la peau de la plupart des mammifères et à certains endroits du corps humain. Pronounced \pwal\. It ranks #4,432 in French word frequency. Often confused with pop and pot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwal\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #4,432 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poil is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwal\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,432 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for poil, with forms such as "opil", "piol", and "poill". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pop", "pot", "pol", 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 poil, spelled P-O-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Filet délié qui croît sur la peau de la plupart des mammifères et à certains endroits du corps humain.
- 2Tous les poils qui sont sur le corps d’un animal.
- 3La chevelure ; mais, dans cette acception, on ne l’emploie guère qu’en parlant des cheveux dont la couleur passe pour désagréable, ou est altérée par l’âge.
- 4Poil hérissé se dit des cheveux, lorsqu’ils se dressent sur la tête.
- 5La barbe de l’homme.
- 6Il se laisserait arracher la barbe poil à poil, se dit d’un poltron.
- 7En parlant de certains animaux, et surtout des chevaux, signifie couleur.
- 8Partie velue du drap et d’autres étoffes, comme le velours, la panne, etc.
- 9Certains filets très déliés, ordinairement cylindriques et flexibles, qui naissent sur les diverses parties des plantes.
- 10Remontrance ; admonestation.
- 11Pénis.
- 12Étudiant ayant passé le rite du baptême qui bizute les bleus ; équivalent masculin de la plume.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opil,piol,poill,ppoil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poil
Misspelling Variants of "poil"
Frequency rank: #4,432 in French
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