pommeau
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,460
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
pommeau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Extrémité supérieure de la poignée d’une épée, d’un sabre, d’une canne ou d’un parapluie, dans laquelle est rivée, selon les cas, soit : la soie de la lame, soit le bâton. Pronounced \pɔ.mo\. Often confused with pommes and poteau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pommeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.mo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #41,460 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pommeau is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.mo\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,460 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for pommeau, with forms such as "opmmeau", "pmomeau", and "pomeau". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "pommes", "poteau", "pomme", 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 pommeau, spelled P-O-M-M-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Extrémité supérieure de la poignée d’une épée, d’un sabre, d’une canne ou d’un parapluie, dans laquelle est rivée, selon les cas, soit : la soie de la lame, soit le bâton.
- 2Éminence qui est au milieu de l’arçon de devant d’une selle, et qui est de forme arrondie.
- 3Boule située à l’extrémité de la rampe d’un escalier.
- 4Apprenti, celui ou celle qui apprend un métier au sein d’une entreprise.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opmmeau,pmomeau,pomeau,pomemau,pommaeu,pommeua,ppommeau
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Misspelling Variants of "pommeau"
Frequency rank: #41,460 in French
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