poitrine

\pwa.tʁin\

/\pwa.tʁin\/ noun

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The verdict

“poitrine” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,268. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,268
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie du corps depuis le bas du cou jusqu’au diaphragme, contenant les poumons et le cœur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-poitrine · poitrine · French

poitrine · rank #4,268 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,268
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH plaindre

Nearest frequency peer: plaindre (-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 « poitrine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « poitrine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

poitrine vs poutine
75% similar
poitrine vs poitrines
89% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for poitrine
PropertyValue
Headwordpoitrine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pwa.tʁin\
Letters8
Frequency rank#4,268
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poitrine »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).poitrinese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « plaindre » (#4,267), « poudre » (#4,269), « photographe » (#4,266). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « poitrine » est au #4,268. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around poitrine (IPA \pwa.tʁin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,268 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for poitrine, with forms such as "opitrine", "piotrine", and "poirtine". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "poutine", "poitrines", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 poitrine, spelled P-O-I-T-R-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie du corps depuis le bas du cou jusqu’au diaphragme, contenant les poumons et le cœur.
  2. 2
    Seins des femmes.
  3. 3
    Ensemble des organes contenus dans la poitrine, et principalement les poumons.
  4. 4
    Partie des côtes, avec la chair qui y tient.
  5. 5
    Partie d’un creuset de haut fourneau située autour du trou de coulée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how poitrine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il y avait de la raillerie dans sa simplicité et du rire dans ses larmes, car il sut toujours pleurer autant qu’une femme quand elle dit à son mari : « Donne-moi un équipage ou je meurs de la poitrine. »
  2. En effet, à l’appel du gong, Habib se porta rapidement à la rencontre du Suédois et le bombarda sans arrêt de swings si vigoureux à la poitrine que l’autre s’écroula.

This word in other languages

bosom(English)pecho(Español)Brust(Deutsch)colo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opitrine
  • piotrine
  • poirtine
  • poitirne
  • poitrien
  • poitrinne
  • poitrnie
  • poitrrine
  • poittrine
  • potirine
  • ppoitrine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poitrine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

opitrine2piotrine2poirtine2poitirne2poitrien2poitrinne1poitrnie2poitrrine1
Edit distance from "poitrine"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poitrine"?
"poitrine" is spelled P-O-I-T-R-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pwa.tʁin\.
What does "poitrine" mean?
As a noun, "poitrine" means: Partie du corps depuis le bas du cou jusqu’au diaphragme, contenant les poumons et le cœur.
What words are commonly confused with "poitrine"?
"poitrine" is commonly confused with "poutine", "poitrines". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "poitrine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poitrine" is \pwa.tʁin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poitrine" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poitrine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

plaindre#4,267prétexte#4,271qualifié#4,272parvenir#4,263

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

partant11 variantstromper11 variantsfidèles11 variantsagression11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list