poser
\po.ze\
The verdict
“poser” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,232 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #1,232
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Placer, mettre sur quelque chose.
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 | poser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \po.ze\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “poser” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poser is 5 letters long, classified as a verb, 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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for poser, with forms such as "opser", "poesr", and "poserr". 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, "pour", "Post", "pote", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is poser, spelled P-O-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Placer, mettre sur quelque chose.
- 2Abandonner une chose.
- 3Mettre dans le lieu, dans la situation convenable, placer.
- 4Mettre, fixer une pierre, une poutre, une colonne, une statue, etc., à la place qu’elle doit occuper.
- 5Établir.
- 6Fixer ou préciser, en parlant d'une question.
- 7Adresser, en parlant d'une question.
- 8Mettre en bonne place, en valeur, en crédit.
- 9Se dit en parlant des chiffres qu’on écrit dans une opération, par opposition à retenir.
- 10Attaquer un son avec fermeté et sûreté et le maintenir pendant toute la durée de la note.
- 11Être posé ou appuyé sur quelque chose ; porter sur quelque chose.
- 12Prendre une certaine attitude pour se faire peindre, pour se faire photographier.
- 13Étudier ses attitudes, ses gestes, ses regards, son langage, pour produire de l’effet.
- 14Se placer.
- 15Arrêter de voler et prendre place sur un objet ou une surface, en parlant des oiseaux et des autres animaux volants; se percher.
- 16Se donner une position, une situation, une attitude.
- 17Prendre un rôle, s’en donner l’apparence.
- 18S’asseoir, s’installer quelque part.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opser,poesr,poserr,posre,posser,pposer,psoer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poser - 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.
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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Using “poser”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-S-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \po.ze\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “pour” - see the side-by-side comparison. poser vs pour
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.