postier
\pɔs.tje\
The verdict
“postier” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,117. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,117
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Agent, employé du service des postes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-postier · postier · French
postier · rank #48,117 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,117
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH portante
Nearest frequency peer: portante (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « postier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Pontivy
Pontivy
51,888 corpus weight
- Popeye
Popeye
51,886 corpus weight
- portante
portante
51,885 corpus weight
- postier
postier
51,884 corpus weight
- pressure
pressure
51,881 corpus weight
- promotionne…
promotionnels
51,880 corpus weight
What this shows « postier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | postier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔs.tje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « postier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around postier (IPA \pɔs.tje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,117 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Agent, employé du service des postes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for postier, with forms such as "opstier", "positer", and "posstier". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "potter", "potier", "potiers", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is postier, spelled P-O-S-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Agent, employé du service des postes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how postier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le postier n’a rien, mais le gardien de l’immeuble qui a voulu le ceinturer a été blessé.
Il y a dix ans, en 2005, on a connu une grève très marquante de deux semaines. Déclenchée à Aix-en-Provence, elle s’est propagée comme une traînée de poudre à l’ensemble du département, avec des milliers de postiers chauds comme la braise.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opstier
- positer
- posstier
- posteir
- postierr
- postire
- posttier
- potsier
- ppostier
- psotier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of postier - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "postier", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).