potagère
\pɔ.ta.ʒɛʁ\
The verdict
“potagère” is uncommon French (frequency #87,964 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,964
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de potager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-potagere · potagère · French
potagère · rank #87,964 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,964
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH postillons
Nearest frequency peer: postillons (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « potagère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pommery
Pommery
12,041 corpus weight
- postillons
postillons
12,038 corpus weight
- potagère
potagère
12,037 corpus weight
- povre
povre
12,036 corpus weight
- Presbourg
Presbourg
12,034 corpus weight
- pressentant
pressentant
12,033 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « potagère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potagère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.ta.ʒɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,964 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « potagère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
potagère is uncommon French at frequency #87,964 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔ.ta.ʒɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de potager.".
Zero misspellings are on record for potagère in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is potagère, spelled P-O-T-A-G-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de potager.
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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