popote
\pɔ.pɔt\
The verdict
“popote” is uncommon French (frequency #73,449 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,449
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cuisine commune, table commune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-popote · popote · French
popote · rank #73,449 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,449
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pools
Nearest frequency peer: Pools (-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 « popote »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pomona
Pomona
26,555 corpus weight
- pontifes
pontifes
26,554 corpus weight
- Pools
Pools
26,553 corpus weight
- popote
popote
26,552 corpus weight
- potages
potages
26,551 corpus weight
- potatoes
potatoes
26,550 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « popote » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | popote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.pɔt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,449 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « popote » en français
Rare enough to double-check
popote is uncommon French at frequency #73,449 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.pɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for popote, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is popote, spelled P-O-P-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Cuisine commune, table commune.
- 2Élaboration des plats.
- 3Endroit où l’on prend les repas.
- 4Produit d’entretien des violons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how popote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est une chance que l’institutrice de Maupeyrou soit justement la sœur de M. Ennberg. Une chance, qu’elle ne soit pas mariée et qu’elle fasse popote avec le ménage.
Il venait là, tous les soirs, désertant l'ennuyeuse popote, et la demeure de cette prostituée arabe était devenue son foyer.
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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