posséder
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,986
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
posséder is aFrenchverb. It means: Avoir à soi, en son pouvoir ; avoir la propriété ou la possession de. Pronounced \pɔ.se.de\. It ranks #6,986 in French word frequency. Often confused with possédez and possédés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | posséder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔ.se.de\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for posséder is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.se.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,986 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for posséder, with forms such as "opsséder", "possdéer", and "posseder". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "possédez", "possédés", "possédé", 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 posséder, spelled P-O-S-S-É-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Avoir à soi, en son pouvoir ; avoir la propriété ou la possession de.
- 2Avoir en propre.
- 3Être doté, en parlant d’attributs.
- 4Être titulaire, en parlant des emplois, des honneurs, des qualités.
- 5Savoir bien une chose ; en avoir une parfaite connaissance.
- 6Prendre par les passions, des sentiments qui maîtrisent l’âme, qui l’agitent et l’égarent.
- 7(Sens faible) Posséder quelqu'un : l'avoir chez soi et jouir de sa compagnie.
- 8S’emparer du corps et de l’âme d'une personne, en parlant du démon.
- 9Avoir un rapport sexuel.
- 10Être maître de son esprit, de ses passions, de ses mouvements, ne pas se laisser troubler par les circonstances fâcheuses.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opsséder,possdéer,posseder,possédder,posséderr,possédre,posséedr,poséder,posésder,pposséder,psoséder
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for posséder
Misspelling Variants of "posséder"
Frequency rank: #6,986 in French
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