pot-pourri
\po.pu.ʁi\
The verdict
“pot-pourri” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ragout de viande et de légumes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pot-pourri |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \po.pu.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pot-pourri” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pot-pourri is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \po.pu.ʁi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pot-pourri, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 pot-pourri, spelled P-O-T---P-O-U-R-R-I.
Definition
- 1Ragout de viande et de légumes.
- 2Mélange d’épices, de plantes et de fleurs séchées choisies pour leurs parfums et arômes.
- 3Récipient percé de trous, destiné à recevoir ce mélange aromatique.
- 4Mélange, assemblage, collage plus ou moins bien assorti.
- 5Morceau de musique, composé d’un choix d’airs empruntés à une même partition, ou bien interprétés par un même artiste, ou encore appartenant à un même genre musical.
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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.
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Using “pot-pourri”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-T---P-O-U-R-R-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \po.pu.ʁi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.