posa

\po.za\

/\po.za\/ verb

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The verdict

“posa” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,819. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#20,819
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de poser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-posa · posa · French

posa · rank #20,819 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #20,819
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH plantée

Nearest frequency peer: plantée (-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 « posa »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « posa » 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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

posa vs PS
0% similar
posa vs pot
50% similar
posa vs PSG
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for posa
PropertyValue
Headwordposa
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\po.za\
Letters4
Frequency rank#20,819
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « posa »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.posase place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « plantée » (#20,818), « possédaient » (#20,820), « pixel » (#20,817). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « posa » est au #20,819. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around posa (IPA \po.za\), averb. Corpus frequency is #20,819 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de poser.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for posa, with forms such as "opsa", "poas", and "possa". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "pot", "PSG", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented 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 posa, spelled P-O-S-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de poser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. La lieutenante Adriana Wayakalin se gara sur le parking de la brigade, coupa le moteur et posa les deux mains sur le volant.
  2. Là-dessus, elle ragréa son foulard, et se posa comme pour conter ; car il y a, certes, une attitude de confiance et de sécurité nécessaire pour faire un récit.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opsa
  • poas
  • possa
  • pposa
  • psoa

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of posa - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

opsa2poas2possa1pposa1psoa2
Edit distance from "posa"

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 "posa"?
"posa" is spelled P-O-S-A. The IPA pronunciation is \po.za\.
What does "posa" mean?
As a verb, "posa" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de poser.
What words are commonly confused with "posa"?
"posa" is commonly confused with "PS", "pot", "PSG". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "posa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "posa" is \po.za\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "posa" come from?
"posa" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ouïe#20,804slow#20,855lead#20,773kant#20,770

Similar misspelling depth

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

tulle5 variantsétui5 variantsbave5 variantsamos5 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list