Poitevine
\pwat.vin\
The verdict
“Poitevine” is uncommon French (frequency #85,141 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,141
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Habitante du Poitou ou de Poitiers.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poitevine · Poitevine · French
Poitevine · rank #85,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,141
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polisson
Nearest frequency peer: polisson (+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 « Poitevine »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plumeau
plumeau
14,863 corpus weight
- plurilingui…
plurilinguisme
14,862 corpus weight
- Poitevine
Poitevine
14,860 corpus weight
- polisson
polisson
14,859 corpus weight
- polski
polski
14,858 corpus weight
- polype
polype
14,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Poitevine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Poitevine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwat.vin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #85,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Poitevine » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Poitevine is uncommon French at frequency #85,141 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pwat.vin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Habitante du Poitou ou de Poitiers.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Poitevine, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Poitevine, spelled P-O-I-T-E-V-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Habitante du Poitou ou de Poitiers.
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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