poisseux
\pwa.sø\
The verdict
“poisseux” is uncommon French (frequency #66,236 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,236
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est gluant, collant comme de la poix.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poisseux · poisseux · French
poisseux · rank #66,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,236
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pods
Nearest frequency peer: pods (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « poisseux »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pluvieuses
pluvieuses
33,768 corpus weight
- pneumologie
pneumologie
33,767 corpus weight
- pods
pods
33,766 corpus weight
- poisseux
poisseux
33,765 corpus weight
- politiser
politiser
33,764 corpus weight
- Polk
Polk
33,763 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poisseux » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poisseux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pwa.sø\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poisseux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poisseux is uncommon French at frequency #66,236 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pwa.sø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est gluant, collant comme de la poix.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for poisseux in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is poisseux, spelled P-O-I-S-S-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est gluant, collant comme de la poix.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poisseux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis, il n’y avait plus que des bancs, sans coussin ni tapis, le long desquels s’alignaient des tables de guinguette, où les verres des consommations laissaient des ronds poisseux.
Quand l’animal veut s’offrir un insecte, il lui expédie sa langue poisseuse, où il le prend comme à la glu.
This word in other languages
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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