pot

/\po\/ noun

Letters

3 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,954

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

pot is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vase de terre, verre, métal, plastique ou autre matière servant à divers usages. Pronounced \po\. It ranks #3,954 in French word frequency. Often confused with pu and PS.

Key facts for pot
PropertyValue
Headwordpot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\po\
Letters3
Frequency rank#3,954
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pot in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pot is 3 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \po\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,954 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pot in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", 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 pot, spelled P-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vase de terre, verre, métal, plastique ou autre matière servant à divers usages.
  2. 2
    Vase de terre, verre, métal, plastique ou autre matière servant à divers usages.
  3. 3
    Vase de terre, verre, métal, plastique ou autre matière servant à divers usages.
  4. 4
    Ornement représentant un vase d’où sortent des flammes.
  5. 5
    Marmite où l’on met bouillir la viande.
  6. 6
    Petite collation entre collègues ou amis.
  7. 7
    Chance.
  8. 8
    Pot de chambre.
  9. 9
    Bouteille et quantité de vin de 0,46 litre.
  10. 10
    Mesure de capacité en usage dans de nombreux pays européens avant le système métrique.
  11. 11
    Nom régional des dolines, par analogie de forme.
  12. 12
    Format français de papier, de 31 cm sur 40 cm.
  13. 13
    Dans le jeu des quatre coins, le pot est le cinquième joueur qui se trouve au milieu et cherche à prendre la place de l'un des quatre autres joueurs lors de son déplacement d'un coin à l'autre. — (Jean Félicissime Aldry, Dictionnaire des jeux de l'enfance et de la jeunesse chez tous les peuples, Chez Barbou, rue des Mathurins, 1807)

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Frequency rank: #3,954 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pot"?
"pot" is spelled P-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \po\.
What does "pot" mean?
As a noun, "pot" means: Vase de terre, verre, métal, plastique ou autre matière servant à divers usages.
What words are commonly confused with "pot"?
"pot" is commonly confused with "pu", "PS", "PQ". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pot" is \po\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pot" come from?
"pot" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.