poitrail
\pwa.tʁaj\
The verdict
“poitrail” is uncommon French (frequency #64,696 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,696
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie avant du corps du cheval.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poitrail · poitrail · French
poitrail · rank #64,696 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,696
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poetry
Nearest frequency peer: poetry (-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 « poitrail »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plafonnier
plafonnier
35,308 corpus weight
- poetry
poetry
35,306 corpus weight
- poitrail
poitrail
35,305 corpus weight
- Politik
Politik
35,304 corpus weight
- poll
poll
35,303 corpus weight
- polygraphe
polygraphe
35,302 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poitrail » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poitrail |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa.tʁaj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poitrail » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poitrail is uncommon French at frequency #64,696 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pwa.tʁaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
poitrail doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is poitrail, spelled P-O-I-T-R-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Partie avant du corps du cheval.
- 2Partie du harnais qui se met sur le poitrail du cheval.
- 3Buste, torse en parlant de l'humain (avec idée de largeur, force, puissance).
- 4Désigne une grosse pièce de bois ou de fer, formant linteau, qui se pose horizontalement sur des pieds-droits pour soutenir un mur de face, ou un pan de bois.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poitrail appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La foule / S’ouvre sous le poitrail des chevaux de Sidon.
Ce cheval a un beau poitrail.
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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