potache
\pɔ.taʃ\
The verdict
“potache” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,864. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,864
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a les caractéristiques des collégiens, des lycéens, en particulier relativement à l’humour.
Corpus desk
Index FR-potache · potache · French
potache · rank #49,864 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,864
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH portèrent
Nearest frequency peer: portèrent (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « potache »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pontet
pontet
50,139 corpus weight
- portèrent
portèrent
50,138 corpus weight
- potache
potache
50,137 corpus weight
- pourchasser
pourchasser
50,136 corpus weight
- precision
precision
50,135 corpus weight
- prep
prep
50,134 corpus weight
What this shows « potache » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potache |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.taʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « potache »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around potache (IPA \pɔ.taʃ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,864 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui a les caractéristiques des collégiens, des lycéens, en particulier relativement à l’humour.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for potache, with forms such as "optache", "poatche", and "potacche". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "potage", "potasse", "poche", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is potache, spelled P-O-T-A-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a les caractéristiques des collégiens, des lycéens, en particulier relativement à l’humour.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how potache appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ce moment les messieurs se déplacent, je me regarde dans une glace qui est juste en face de moi, de l’autre côté de la chambre, et je me vois avec ma tête tondue, mes grandes oreilles écartées de cette tête, mon menton coupé par le col de satin noir que nous portions militairement, mon corps boudiné dans ma tunique, et cet air potache, où il y a un peu…
L’ambiance est potache, avec des blagues où il faut être un homme, un vrai.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- optache
- poatche
- potacche
- potaceh
- potachhe
- potahce
- potcahe
- pottache
- ppotache
- ptoache
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of potache - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).