poissonnerie
\pwa.sɔn.ʁi\
The verdict
“poissonnerie” is uncommon French (frequency #50,429 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,429
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Boutique où l’on vend le poisson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poissonnerie · poissonnerie · French
poissonnerie · rank #50,429 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,429
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH portraitiste
Nearest frequency peer: portraitiste (+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 « poissonnerie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plongeante
plongeante
49,576 corpus weight
- pluviôse
pluviôse
49,575 corpus weight
- poissonnerie
poissonnerie
49,572 corpus weight
- portraitiste
portraitiste
49,571 corpus weight
- poseront
poseront
49,570 corpus weight
- postiers
postiers
49,569 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poissonnerie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poissonnerie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa.sɔn.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #50,429 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poissonnerie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poissonnerie is uncommon French at frequency #50,429 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pwa.sɔn.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Boutique où l’on vend le poisson.".
Zero misspellings are on record for poissonnerie in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is poissonnerie, spelled P-O-I-S-S-O-N-N-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Boutique où l’on vend le poisson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poissonnerie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a queue à la poissonnerie, signe d’une intégration généralisée de la tradition catholique. En réalité, la seule croyance qui fasse acheter du poisson le vendredi, c’est celle qu’il est plus frais que les autres jours.
Alric Paon, à la tête d’un réseau d’une quinzaine de poissonneries et points de vente en Loire-Atlantique, observe également cette augmentation soudaine du tarif du bulot : « Les habitués nous posent des questions, forcément. On explique le contexte et on tire sur nos marges. »
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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