poivron
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,942
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
poivron is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante annuelle de la famille des solanacées originaire d'Amérique du Sud et centrale, cultivée comme plante potagère pour ses fruits consommés, crus ou cuits, comme légumes. Pronounced \pwa.vʁɔ̃\. Often confused with potiron and poivrons.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poivron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa.vʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,942 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poivron is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pwa.vʁɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,942 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for poivron, with forms such as "opivron", "piovron", and "poirvon". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "potiron", "poivrons", "piron", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is poivron, spelled P-O-I-V-R-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante annuelle de la famille des solanacées originaire d'Amérique du Sud et centrale, cultivée comme plante potagère pour ses fruits consommés, crus ou cuits, comme légumes.
- 2Fruit de cette plante, employé comme légume.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opivron,piovron,poirvon,poivorn,poivrno,poivronn,poivrron,poivvron,poviron,ppoivron
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Misspelling Variants of "poivron"
Frequency rank: #39,942 in French
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