poisson
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,589
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
poisson is aFrenchnoun. It means: Animal possédant un squelette, généralement ovipare (mais parfois ovovivipare ou vivipare), vivant dans l’eau, et respirant généralement par des branchies (bien que certaines espèces aient des syst... Pronounced \pwa.sɔ̃\. It ranks #2,589 in French word frequency. Often confused with prison and Poissy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poisson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,589 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poisson is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwa.sɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,589 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 poisson, with forms such as "opisson", "piosson", and "poisosn". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "prison", "Poissy", "poussin", 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 poisson, spelled P-O-I-S-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Animal possédant un squelette, généralement ovipare (mais parfois ovovivipare ou vivipare), vivant dans l’eau, et respirant généralement par des branchies (bien que certaines espèces aient des systèmes de respiration aérienne complémentaire, comme les poumons des dipneustes ou le labyrinthe des anabantidés).
- 2Tout animal aquatique.
- 3Chair de cet animal destinée à la consommation.
- 4Posture du yoga où le corps repose sur les fesses et le sommet de la tête, le tronc étant relevé.
- 5Meuble représentant un animal marin dont l’espèce n’est pas clairement identifiable dans les armoiries. Il est représenté en fasce, la tête à dextre, la gueule fermée. Toutefois certains poissons ont des dispositions différentes. Voir baleine, bar, chabot et dauphin.
- 6Ellipse de poisson d’avril.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opisson,piosson,poisosn,poissno,poissonn,posison,ppoisson
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poisson
Misspelling Variants of "poisson"
Frequency rank: #2,589 in French
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