poison
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#9,216
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
poison is aFrenchnoun. It means: Substance qui, introduite dans l’organisme, altère ou même détruit les fonctions vitales. Pronounced \pwa.zɔ̃\. It ranks #9,216 in French word frequency. Often confused with prison and Poitou.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poison |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa.zɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,216 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poison is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwa.zɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,216 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for poison, with forms such as "opison", "pioson", and "poiosn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "prison", "Poitou", "poumon", 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 poison, spelled P-O-I-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Substance qui, introduite dans l’organisme, altère ou même détruit les fonctions vitales.
- 2Ce qui corrompt le cœur ou l’esprit, en parlant des maximes pernicieuses, des écrits ou des discours.
- 3Chose qui trouble la raison, qui agite le cœur, qui nuit au bonheur de la vie.
- 4Action visant à nuire, et nuisant effectivement, quitte à tuer, annihiler.
- 5Méchante femme ; femme insupportable.
- 6Isotope qui possède une très grande section efficace de capture neutronique et qui inhibe ainsi les réactions nucléaires en chaînes nécessaires pour la fission.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opison,pioson,poiosn,poisno,poisonn,posion,ppoison
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poison
Misspelling Variants of "poison"
Frequency rank: #9,216 in French
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