pot
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \po\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #3,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Vase de terre, verre, métal, plastique ou autre matière servant à divers usages.
- 2Vase de terre, verre, métal, plastique ou autre matière servant à divers usages.
- 3Vase de terre, verre, métal, plastique ou autre matière servant à divers usages.
- 4Ornement représentant un vase d’où sortent des flammes.
- 5Marmite où l’on met bouillir la viande.
- 6Petite collation entre collègues ou amis.
- 7Chance.
- 8Pot de chambre.
- 9Bouteille et quantité de vin de 0,46 litre.
- 10Mesure de capacité en usage dans de nombreux pays européens avant le système métrique.
- 11Nom régional des dolines, par analogie de forme.
- 12Format français de papier, de 31 cm sur 40 cm.
- 13Dans 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
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