pose

/\poz\/ noun

Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,147

in French word usage

Misspellings

5

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

pose is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de poser, de mettre en place. Pronounced \poz\. It ranks #1,147 in French word frequency. Often confused with PS and pré.

Key facts for pose
PropertyValue
Headwordpose
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\poz\
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,147
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pose in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pose is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \poz\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,147 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pose, with forms such as "opse", "poes", and "posse". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "pré", "pot", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pose, spelled P-O-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de poser, de mettre en place.
  2. 2
    Avantage qui consiste à jouer le premier dé au domino, au jacquet, etc.
  3. 3
    Manière de poser, en parlant de la voix.
  4. 4
    Action de se poser, manière de se tenir, attitude.
  5. 5
    Action de poser pour se faire peindre, photographier, etc.
  6. 6
    Attitude qu’un peintre, un sculpteur ou un photographe fait prendre à son modèle.
  7. 7
    Temps que dure la pose devant l’objectif.
  8. 8
    Affectation dans l’attitude, dans les paroles qui annonce l’intention de produire de l’effet.
  9. 9
    Ancienne unité d'aire en viticulture. C'est la surface qu'un ouvrier peut travailler en une journée. La dimension d'une pose, en nombre de mètres carrés, dépend donc des régions, suivant la nature du terrain.
  10. 10
    Quantité de produits imprimés sur une même planche.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: opse,poes,posse,ppose,psoe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pose

Misspelling Variants of "pose"

opse4poes4posse5ppose5psoe4
Misspelling Variants of "pose"

Frequency rank: #1,147 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pose"?
"pose" is spelled P-O-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \poz\.
What does "pose" mean?
As a noun, "pose" means: Action de poser, de mettre en place.
What words are commonly confused with "pose"?
"pose" is commonly confused with "PS", "pré", "pot". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pose"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pose" is \poz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pose" come from?
"pose" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.