poitrinaire
\pwa.tʁi.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“poitrinaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a la poitrine atteinte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poitrinaire · poitrinaire · French
poitrinaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poitrinaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pwa.tʁi.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
poitrinaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pwa.tʁi.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
poitrinaire doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is poitrinaire, spelled P-O-I-T-R-I-N-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a la poitrine atteinte.
- 2Qui manque d’énergie, de puissance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poitrinaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cet avoir sera grevé d’une petite rente à faire à Lisbeth, mais elle ne vivra pas longtemps, elle est poitrinaire, je le sais.
À chaque nouvelle trouvaille, c’étaient des suppositions sans fin. Si l’os était petit, elle parlait d’une belle jeune fille poitrinaire, ou emportée par une fièvre la veille de son mariage ; si l’os était gros, elle rêvait quelque grand vieillard, un soldat, un juge, quelque homme terrible.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.