postillons
\pɔs.ti.jɔ̃\
The verdict
“postillons” is uncommon French (frequency #87,963 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,963
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de postillon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-postillons · postillons · French
postillons · rank #87,963 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,963
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH potagère
Nearest frequency peer: potagère (+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 « postillons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- polyphoniqu…
polyphoniques
12,043 corpus weight
- Pommery
Pommery
12,041 corpus weight
- postillons
postillons
12,038 corpus weight
- potagère
potagère
12,037 corpus weight
- povre
povre
12,036 corpus weight
- Presbourg
Presbourg
12,034 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « postillons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | postillons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔs.ti.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,963 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « postillons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
postillons is uncommon French at frequency #87,963 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔs.ti.jɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de postillon.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for postillons, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is postillons, spelled P-O-S-T-I-L-L-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de postillon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how postillons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Trois batteries de coups de fouet éclatent et déchirent l’air comme une mousqueterie, les gilets rouges des postillons poindent, dix chevaux hennissent ! le maître ôte sa casquette et l’agite, il est aperçu.
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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