popa
\pɔ.pa\
The verdict
“popa” is uncommon French (frequency #83,262 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,262
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de poper.
Corpus desk
Index FR-popa · popa · French
popa · rank #83,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,262
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pork
Nearest frequency peer: pork (+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 « popa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- potasser
potasser
16,736 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « popa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | popa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔ.pa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « popa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
popa is uncommon French at frequency #83,262 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɔ.pa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de poper.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for popa in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is popa, spelled P-O-P-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de poper.
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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