poser

/\po.ze\/ verb

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#1,232

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

poser is aFrenchverb. It means: Placer, mettre sur quelque chose. Pronounced \po.ze\. It ranks #1,232 in French word frequency. Often confused with pour and Post.

Key facts for poser
PropertyValue
Headwordposer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\po.ze\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,232
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for poser is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \po.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,232 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for poser, with forms such as "opser", "poesr", and "poserr". 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, "pour", "Post", "pote", 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 poser, spelled P-O-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Placer, mettre sur quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Abandonner une chose.
  3. 3
    Mettre dans le lieu, dans la situation convenable, placer.
  4. 4
    Mettre, fixer une pierre, une poutre, une colonne, une statue, etc., à la place qu’elle doit occuper.
  5. 5
    Établir.
  6. 6
    Fixer ou préciser, en parlant d'une question.
  7. 7
    Adresser, en parlant d'une question.
  8. 8
    Mettre en bonne place, en valeur, en crédit.
  9. 9
    Se dit en parlant des chiffres qu’on écrit dans une opération, par opposition à retenir.
  10. 10
    Attaquer un son avec fermeté et sûreté et le maintenir pendant toute la durée de la note.
  11. 11
    Être posé ou appuyé sur quelque chose ; porter sur quelque chose.
  12. 12
    Prendre une certaine attitude pour se faire peindre, pour se faire photographier.
  13. 13
    Étudier ses attitudes, ses gestes, ses regards, son langage, pour produire de l’effet.
  14. 14
    Se placer.
  15. 15
    Arrêter de voler et prendre place sur un objet ou une surface, en parlant des oiseaux et des autres animaux volants; se percher.
  16. 16
    Se donner une position, une situation, une attitude.
  17. 17
    Prendre un rôle, s’en donner l’apparence.
  18. 18
    S’asseoir, s’installer quelque part.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: opser,poesr,poserr,posre,posser,pposer,psoer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poser

Misspelling Variants of "poser"

opser5poesr5poserr6posre5posser6pposer6psoer5
Misspelling Variants of "poser"

Frequency rank: #1,232 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poser"?
"poser" is spelled P-O-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \po.ze\.
What does "poser" mean?
As a verb, "poser" means: Placer, mettre sur quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "poser"?
"poser" is commonly confused with "pour", "Post", "pote". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "poser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poser" is \po.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poser" come from?
"poser" 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.