poissonnier
\pwa.sɔ.nje\
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
- plombée
plombée
42,494 corpus weight
- pluriels
pluriels
42,493 corpus weight
- pointées
pointées
42,492 corpus weight
- poissonnier
poissonnier
42,491 corpus weight
- polenta
polenta
42,490 corpus weight
- politisés
politisés
42,489 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poissonnier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poissonnier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pwa.sɔ.nje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #57,510 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poissonnier » en français
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
- 1Qui concerne le poisson.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poissonnier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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