poncer
\pɔ̃.se\
The verdict
“poncer” is uncommon French (frequency #68,557 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,557
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Polir, rendre uni avec la pierre ponce.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poncer · poncer · French
poncer · rank #68,557 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,557
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pompili
Nearest frequency peer: Pompili (-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 « poncer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- planeurs
planeurs
31,448 corpus weight
- polak
polak
31,447 corpus weight
- polyphénols
polyphénols
31,446 corpus weight
- Pompili
Pompili
31,445 corpus weight
- poncer
poncer
31,444 corpus weight
- ponctionner
ponctionner
31,443 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poncer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poncer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔ̃.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,557 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poncer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poncer is uncommon French at frequency #68,557 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɔ̃.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for poncer in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is poncer, spelled P-O-N-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Polir, rendre uni avec la pierre ponce.
- 2Exploiter à fond, décortiquer, connaître dans les moindres détails.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poncer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Poncer du parchemin.
Poncer du cuir.
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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