poireaux
\pwa.ʁo\
The verdict
“poireaux” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,211. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,211
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de poireau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poireaux · poireaux · French
poireaux · rank #35,211 · 10 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,211
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH possessif
Nearest frequency peer: possessif (+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 « poireaux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plurielle
plurielle
64,793 corpus weight
- Plutarque
Plutarque
64,792 corpus weight
- poireaux
poireaux
64,790 corpus weight
- possessif
possessif
64,789 corpus weight
- potentialit…
potentialités
64,788 corpus weight
- printanière
printanière
64,787 corpus weight
What this shows « poireaux » 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 | poireaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #35,211 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poireaux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around poireaux (IPA \pwa.ʁo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,211 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de poireau.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for poireaux, with forms such as "opireaux", "pioreaux", and "poieraux". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "poreux", "poteaux", "poireau", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is poireaux, spelled P-O-I-R-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de poireau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poireaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais surtout, elle sait tout laver : des fraises aux poireaux en passant par la salade ou les champignons, elle lave tous les légumes et les fruits en profondeur sans les abîmer si fragiles soient-ils. Elle est même recommandée pour déféculer les frites.
On s’avisa que dans les cales des bateaux, plusieurs barriques de graines n’avaient pas encore été déchargées : seigle, froment, orge, ravette, choux, poireaux.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opireaux
- pioreaux
- poieraux
- poiraeux
- poireauxx
- poireaxu
- poireuax
- poirreaux
- porieaux
- ppoireaux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poireaux - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).