poissonnier

\pwa.sɔ.nje\

/\pwa.sɔ.nje\/ adj

The verdict

“poissonnier” is uncommon French (frequency #57,510 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,510
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne le poisson.

Corpus desk

Index FR-poissonnier · poissonnier · French

poissonnier · rank #57,510 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,510
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pointées

Nearest frequency peer: pointées (-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 « poissonnier »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poissonnier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for poissonnier
PropertyValue
Headwordpoissonnier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pwa.sɔ.nje\
Letters11
Frequency rank#57,510
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « poissonnier » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.poissonniertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « pointées » (#57,509), « polenta » (#57,511), « pluriels » (#57,508). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « poissonnier » est au #57,510. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

poissonnier is uncommon French at frequency #57,510 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pwa.sɔ.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui concerne le poisson.".

poissonnier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 poissonnier, spelled P-O-I-S-S-O-N-N-I-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui concerne le poisson.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how poissonnier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’industrie poissonnière.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poissonnier"?
"poissonnier" is spelled P-O-I-S-S-O-N-N-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pwa.sɔ.nje\.
What does "poissonnier" mean?
As an adjective, "poissonnier" means: Qui concerne le poisson.
How do you pronounce "poissonnier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poissonnier" is \pwa.sɔ.nje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poissonnier" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poissonnier", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list