pompeuse
\pɔ̃.pøz\
The verdict
“pompeuse” is uncommon French (frequency #83,260 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,260
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui pompe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pompeuse · pompeuse · French
pompeuse · rank #83,260 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,260
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH polynésiennes
Nearest frequency peer: polynésiennes (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pompeuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PLFSS
PLFSS
16,744 corpus weight
- podestat
podestat
16,743 corpus weight
- polynésienn…
polynésiennes
16,742 corpus weight
- pompeuse
pompeuse
16,741 corpus weight
- popa
popa
16,739 corpus weight
- pork
pork
16,738 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pompeuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pompeuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ̃.pøz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pompeuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pompeuse is uncommon French at frequency #83,260 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ̃.pøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pompeuse, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pompeuse, spelled P-O-M-P-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui pompe.
- 2Celle qui pompe.
- 3Machine qui pompe.
- 4Machine qui pompe.
- 5Élève qui pompe, tricheuse, copieuse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pompeuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'étais allée trop loin, petite suceuse vaniteuse. Une pompeuse bien malchanceuse et un peu… impétueuse.
Elles annulent même la garantie si la pompeuse de lait maternel est utilisée par plus d’une personne.
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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