postiche
\pɔs.tiʃ\
The verdict
“postiche” is uncommon French (frequency #70,959 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,959
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est faux, artificiel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-postiche · postiche · French
postiche · rank #70,959 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,959
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH possédera
Nearest frequency peer: possédera (-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 « postiche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ponceau
ponceau
29,047 corpus weight
- porque
porque
29,045 corpus weight
- possédera
possédera
29,043 corpus weight
- postiche
postiche
29,042 corpus weight
- pradier
pradier
29,041 corpus weight
- prato
prato
29,040 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « postiche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postiche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔs.tiʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,959 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « postiche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
postiche is uncommon French at frequency #70,959 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔs.tiʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
postiche has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is postiche, spelled P-O-S-T-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est faux, artificiel.
- 2Qui est fait et ajouté après coup.
- 3Qui ne convient pas au lieu où il est placé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how postiche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des dents postiches.
Des cheveux postiches. → voir perruque
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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