poivrer
\pwa.vʁe\
The verdict
“poivrer” is uncommon French (frequency #77,802 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,802
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assaisonner de poivre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poivrer · poivrer · French
poivrer · rank #77,802 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,802
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pointez
Nearest frequency peer: pointez (-2 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 « poivrer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- plural
plural
22,203 corpus weight
- plèvre
plèvre
22,202 corpus weight
- pointez
pointez
22,201 corpus weight
- poivrer
poivrer
22,199 corpus weight
- populo
populo
22,197 corpus weight
- porteras
porteras
22,196 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poivrer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poivrer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pwa.vʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poivrer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poivrer is uncommon French at frequency #77,802 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pwa.vʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for poivrer in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 poivrer, spelled P-O-I-V-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Assaisonner de poivre.
- 2Véroler, transmettre la syphilis ou une maladie sexuelle.
- 3Saouler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poivrer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ajouter les tomates, le romarin, le sucre, le ketchup, les câpres, le vinaigre, verser la passata, saler et poivrer.
Ah ! ça ! mais... s'écria le docteur, voilà un petit jeune homme qui s'est fait poivrer de la bonne manière !
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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