pot à eau
\pɔ.t‿a o\
The verdict
“pot à eau” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cruche à eau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pot-a-eau · pot à eau · French
pot à eau · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pot à eau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.t‿a o\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pot à eau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pot à eau is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.t‿a o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cruche à eau.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pot à eau in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pot à eau, spelled P-O-T- -À- -E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Cruche à eau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pot à eau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle se coulait, avec des gestes frileux, dans ce nid surchauffé, saturé par les exhalaisons entêtantes du charbon ; et toute sa conscience était résorbée dans le bonheur d’être là — au chaud —, tandis qu’autour d’elle la neige s’étendait à perte de vue et que, la rivière, comme son pot à eau, tout était gelé.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.