posiez
\po.zje\
The verdict
“posiez” is uncommon French (frequency #95,179 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,179
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de poser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-posiez · posiez · French
posiez · rank #95,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,179
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH posted
Nearest frequency peer: posted (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « posiez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Portishead
Portishead
4,825 corpus weight
- portus
portus
4,824 corpus weight
- posiez
posiez
4,822 corpus weight
- posted
posted
4,821 corpus weight
- poupard
poupard
4,820 corpus weight
- pourvoirie
pourvoirie
4,819 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « posiez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | posiez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \po.zje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « posiez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
posiez is uncommon French at frequency #95,179 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \po.zje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for posiez, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is posiez, spelled P-O-S-I-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de poser.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de poser.
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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