Poitiers
\pwa.tje\
The verdict
“Poitiers” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,741. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,741
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de la Vienne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poitiers · Poitiers · French
Poitiers · rank #7,741 · 11 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,741
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pluies
Nearest frequency peer: pluies (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Poitiers »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plateaux
plateaux
92,263 corpus weight
- plongée
plongée
92,262 corpus weight
- pluies
pluies
92,261 corpus weight
- Poitiers
Poitiers
92,260 corpus weight
- portés
portés
92,259 corpus weight
- promener
promener
92,258 corpus weight
What this shows « Poitiers » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Poitiers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pwa.tje\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,741 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Poitiers »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Poitiers (IPA \pwa.tje\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #7,741 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de la Vienne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Poitiers, with forms such as "opitiers", "piotiers", and "poiiters". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "potier", "portier", "posters", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Poitiers, spelled P-O-I-T-I-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de la Vienne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Poitiers appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et il jeta sur madame Hulot un regard comme Tartuffe en jette à Elmire, quand un acteur de province croit nécessaire de marquer les intentions de ce rôle, à Poitiers ou à Coutances.
Le rendez-vous fut pris à un certain endroit hors des murs, dans un pré fort apprécié des duellistes de Poitiers pour sa solitude, fermeté de terrain et commodité naturelle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opitiers
- piotiers
- poiiters
- poiteirs
- poitierrs
- poitierss
- poitiesr
- poitires
- poittiers
- potiiers
- ppoitiers
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Poitiers - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).