pose
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \poz\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Action de poser, de mettre en place.
- 2Avantage qui consiste à jouer le premier dé au domino, au jacquet, etc.
- 3Manière de poser, en parlant de la voix.
- 4Action de se poser, manière de se tenir, attitude.
- 5Action de poser pour se faire peindre, photographier, etc.
- 6Attitude qu’un peintre, un sculpteur ou un photographe fait prendre à son modèle.
- 7Temps que dure la pose devant l’objectif.
- 8Affectation dans l’attitude, dans les paroles qui annonce l’intention de produire de l’effet.
- 9Ancienne 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.
- 10Quantité 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"
Frequency rank: #1,147 in French
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