poser
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.
| 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) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poser
Misspelling Variants of "poser"
Frequency rank: #1,232 in French
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