pose
\poz\
The verdict
“pose” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,147. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,147
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de poser, de mettre en place.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pose · pose · French
pose · rank #1,147 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,147
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pleine
Nearest frequency peer: pleine (-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 « pose »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parc
parc
98,857 corpus weight
- parties
parties
98,856 corpus weight
- pleine
pleine
98,855 corpus weight
- pose
pose
98,854 corpus weight
- raisons
raisons
98,853 corpus weight
- seigneur
seigneur
98,852 corpus weight
What this shows « pose » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pose »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around pose (IPA \poz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,147 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 10 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for pose, with forms such as "opse", "poes", and "posse". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pose, spelled P-O-S-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pose appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et l'on avait encore par la suite réglementé la pose des lacs à terre si bien que c'était de plus en plus hasardeux d'essayer d'en profiter quand les bêtes rusées refusent la « graine », à la branche !
La pose d’un tapis, d’une serrure.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opse
- poes
- posse
- ppose
- psoe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pose - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).