poissard
\pwa.saʁ\
The verdict
“poissard” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui imite le langage du peuple ou ses mœurs, grossier, vulgaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poissard · poissard · French
poissard · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poissard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pwa.saʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poissard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poissard is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pwa.saʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui imite le langage du peuple ou ses mœurs, grossier, vulgaire.".
poissard has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is poissard, spelled P-O-I-S-S-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Qui imite le langage du peuple ou ses mœurs, grossier, vulgaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poissard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’est fait une spécialité de la chanson poissarde.
C'est dans cette petite Église que M. Veuillot [1813-1893] pratique l'innovation d'introduire l'engueulement dans l'éloquence sacrée ; de jucher Vadé [1720-1757] dans la chaire de Bossuet, et de prêcher..., non pas le catéchisme du diocèse, mais le catéchisme poissard.
This word in other languages
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