pois
\pwa\
The verdict
“pois” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,891. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,891
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chacune des graines, de forme ronde, et enfermées dans une cosse verte, d’une espèce de fabacée (légumineuse) papilionacée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pois · pois · French
pois · rank #9,891 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,891
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleut
Nearest frequency peer: pleut (-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 « pois »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Picardie
Picardie
90,112 corpus weight
- pleut
pleut
90,111 corpus weight
- pois
pois
90,110 corpus weight
- policières
policières
90,109 corpus weight
- portera
portera
90,108 corpus weight
- posées
posées
90,107 corpus weight
What this shows « pois » 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 | pois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #9,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pois »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around pois (IPA \pwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,891 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for pois, with forms such as "opis", "pios", and "poiss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "pop", "pot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pois, spelled P-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Chacune des graines, de forme ronde, et enfermées dans une cosse verte, d’une espèce de fabacée (légumineuse) papilionacée.
- 2Plante même qui porte ce légume.
- 3Motif décoratif en forme de petits ronds alignés.
- 4Petit pétard qu’on fait exploser en le choquant référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des petits pois, ainsi préparés, peuvent se conserver plusieurs années sans perdre le goût qu’ils ont dans la primeur.
L’utilisation du pois dans le Croissant fertile est attestée par des données archéologiques datant de 8000 av. J.-C.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opis
- pios
- poiss
- posi
- ppois
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pois - 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 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).