Poincaré

\pwɛ̃.ka.ʁe\

/\pwɛ̃.ka.ʁe\/ name

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The verdict

“Poincaré” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,721. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,721
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français, surtout connu pour Raymond Poincaré, président de la République française, et Henri Poincaré, mathématicien français.

Corpus desk

Index FR-poincare · Poincaré · French

Poincaré · rank #24,721 · 12 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,721
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH plaquette

Nearest frequency peer: plaquette (-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 « Poincaré »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Poincaré » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Poincaré vs poindre
50% similar
Poincaré vs pointage
50% similar
Poincaré vs pointure
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Poincaré
PropertyValue
HeadwordPoincaré
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\pwɛ̃.ka.ʁe\
Letters8
Frequency rank#24,721
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Poincaré »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Poincarése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « plaquette » (#24,720), « pitch » (#24,719), « polygamie » (#24,723). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « Poincaré » est au #24,721. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around Poincaré (IPA \pwɛ̃.ka.ʁe\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #24,721 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom de famille français, surtout connu pour Raymond Poincaré, président de la République française, et Henri Poincaré, mathématicien français.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Poincaré, with forms such as "opincaré", "pioncaré", and "poicnaré". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "poindre", "pointage", "pointure", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Poincaré, spelled P-O-I-N-C-A-R-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille français, surtout connu pour Raymond Poincaré, président de la République française, et Henri Poincaré, mathématicien français.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Poincaré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. — Nous nous laissons mener par les circonstances, ronchonnait M. de Rocheflamme, bête comme la radio. C’est un de nos malheurs de n’avoir pas de dirigeants. Des hommes distingués, mais pas de caractères. Poincaré, lui, était un chef. — Poincaré avait de l’étoffe, dit Pierre, heureux de se raccrocher machinalement à un nom propre dans ce déluge d’idées gén…
  2. « Cette vague a la particularité de déferler en même temps qu’une vague sévère de grippe et de bronchiolite », rappelle Benjamin Davido, infectiologue et médecin référent de crise Covid-19 à l’hôpital Raymond-Poincaré de Garches (Hauts-de-Seine).

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opincaré
  • pioncaré
  • poicnaré
  • poinacré
  • poincare
  • poincarré
  • poincaér
  • poinccaré
  • poincraé
  • poinncaré
  • ponicaré
  • ppoincaré

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Poincaré - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

opincaré2pioncaré2poicnaré2poinacré2poincare1poincarré1poincaér2poinccaré1
Edit distance from "Poincaré"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Poincaré"?
"Poincaré" is spelled P-O-I-N-C-A-R-É. The IPA pronunciation is \pwɛ̃.ka.ʁe\.
What does "Poincaré" mean?
As a proper noun, "Poincaré" means: Nom de famille français, surtout connu pour Raymond Poincaré, président de la République française, et Henri Poincaré, mathématicien français.
What words are commonly confused with "Poincaré"?
"Poincaré" is commonly confused with "poindre", "pointage", "pointure". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Poincaré"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Poincaré" is \pwɛ̃.ka.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Poincaré" come from?
"Poincaré" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Poincaré", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

passivité12 variantsNazareth12 variantssalement12 variantsmenuisier12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list