poing
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,541
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
poing is aFrenchnoun. It means: Main fermée. Pronounced \pwɛ̃\. It ranks #6,541 in French word frequency. Often confused with pon and pont.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,541 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poing is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,541 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for poing, with forms such as "oping", "piong", and "poign". 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, "pon", "pont", "pois", 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 poing, spelled P-O-I-N-G, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Main fermée.
- 2La main jusqu’à l’endroit où elle se joint au bras.
- 3Violence physique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: oping,piong,poign,poingg,poinng,ponig,ppoing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "poing"
Frequency rank: #6,541 in French
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