poix
\pwa\
The verdict
“poix” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,482. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,482
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matière résineuse gluante et noire qui s’obtient par la distillation des bois résineux de pins ou de sapins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poix · poix · French
poix · rank #38,482 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,482
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH platanes
Nearest frequency peer: platanes (-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 « poix »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plasticien
plasticien
61,521 corpus weight
- platanes
platanes
61,520 corpus weight
- poix
poix
61,519 corpus weight
- ppm
ppm
61,518 corpus weight
- pressante
pressante
61,517 corpus weight
- privations
privations
61,516 corpus weight
What this shows « poix » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pwa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #38,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poix »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around poix (IPA \pwa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,482 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Matière résineuse gluante et noire qui s’obtient par la distillation des bois résineux de pins ou de sapins.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for poix, with forms such as "opix", "piox", and "poixx". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "px", "pop", "pot", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is poix, spelled P-O-I-X.
Definition
- 1Matière résineuse gluante et noire qui s’obtient par la distillation des bois résineux de pins ou de sapins.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Holà ! Anselme, aie soin que la poix et l’huile bouillantes soient prêtes à être versées sur la tête de ces audacieux.
Comme on le pense bien, nous ne négligeâmes pas l’occasion de faire quelques études consciencieuses sur le vin du cru, que je ne trouvais pas aussi bon que je me l’imaginais, malgré son authenticité incontestable ; cela tenait peut-être au goût de poix que lui avait communiqué la bota qui le renfermait.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opix
- piox
- poixx
- poxi
- ppoix
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poix - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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