Poirson
\pwaʁ.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“Poirson” is uncommon French (frequency #76,906 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,906
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poirson · Poirson · French
Poirson · rank #76,906 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,906
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH plébéien
Nearest frequency peer: plébéien (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Poirson »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plisson
plisson
23,099 corpus weight
- pluvial
pluvial
23,098 corpus weight
- plébéien
plébéien
23,097 corpus weight
- Poirson
Poirson
23,095 corpus weight
- portatives
portatives
23,093 corpus weight
- Potemkine
Potemkine
23,091 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Poirson » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Poirson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pwaʁ.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Poirson » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Poirson is uncommon French at frequency #76,906 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pwaʁ.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Poirson has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Poirson, spelled P-O-I-R-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Poirson appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Poirson donne donc à voir un XVIᵉ siècle déshéroïcisé et par conséquent provocatoire aux yeux d’un démocrate, un XVIᵉ siècle par avance anti-micheletien de toute évidence, puisque c’est non seulement la France, mais aussi l’Europe qui sont dépeintes comme revenues « au droit de conquête des barbares dans toute sa violence ».
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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