popotin

\pɔ.pɔ.tɛ̃\

/\pɔ.pɔ.tɛ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“popotin” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,520. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#47,520
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Postérieur, derrière d’une personne (spécialement d’une femme).

Corpus desk

Index FR-popotin · popotin · French

popotin · rank #47,520 · 10 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #47,520
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH plantain

Nearest frequency peer: plantain (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « popotin »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « popotin » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for popotin
PropertyValue
Headwordpopotin
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɔ.pɔ.tɛ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#47,520
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « popotin »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).popotinse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « plantain » (#47,519), « portillon » (#47,521), « planant » (#47,518). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « popotin » est au #47,520. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around popotin (IPA \pɔ.pɔ.tɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,520 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Postérieur, derrière d’une personne (spécialement d’une femme).".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for popotin, with forms such as "oppotin", "pooptin", and "popoitn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is popotin, spelled P-O-P-O-T-I-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Postérieur, derrière d’une personne (spécialement d’une femme).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how popotin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Au menu des festivités, 400 photos de popotins - de préférence à l'air et gironds - signées Jean-Paul Goude, Terry Richardson ou Richard Kern.
  2. C’est sur cette commode que se passe mon premier souvenir avec ma mère : j’ai la fièvre, elle me met un « bonbon-la-fesse » dans le popotin.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • oppotin
  • pooptin
  • popoitn
  • popotinn
  • popotni
  • popottin
  • poppotin
  • poptoin
  • ppootin
  • ppopotin

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of popotin - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

oppotin2pooptin2popoitn2popotinn1popotni2popottin1poppotin1poptoin2
Edit distance from "popotin"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "popotin"?
"popotin" is spelled P-O-P-O-T-I-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pɔ.pɔ.tɛ̃\.
What does "popotin" mean?
As a noun, "popotin" means: Postérieur, derrière d’une personne (spécialement d’une femme).
What are common misspellings of "popotin"?
Common misspellings include "oppotin", "pooptin", "popoitn", "popotinn", "popotni". The correct spelling is "popotin".
How do you pronounce "popotin"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "popotin" is \pɔ.pɔ.tɛ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "popotin" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "popotin", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

planant#47,518picarde#47,515produis#47,529pruneau#47,535

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

pouilleux10 variantsparions10 variantsrameurs10 variantsoptimus10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list