potasser
\pɔ.ta.se\
The verdict
“potasser” is uncommon French (frequency #83,265 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,265
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étudier ou réviser ses cours ou ses leçons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-potasser · potasser · French
potasser · rank #83,265 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,265
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pouliches
Nearest frequency peer: pouliches (+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 « potasser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pompeuse
pompeuse
16,741 corpus weight
- popa
popa
16,739 corpus weight
- pork
pork
16,738 corpus weight
- potasser
potasser
16,736 corpus weight
- pouliches
pouliches
16,735 corpus weight
- pourfendre
pourfendre
16,734 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « potasser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potasser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔ.ta.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,265 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « potasser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
potasser is uncommon French at frequency #83,265 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɔ.ta.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Étudier ou réviser ses cours ou ses leçons.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for potasser in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 potasser, spelled P-O-T-A-S-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Étudier ou réviser ses cours ou ses leçons.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how potasser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À vingt-six ans, Bernard Desqueyroux, après quelques voyages « fortement potassés d’avance » en Italie, en Espagne, aux Pays-Bas, épouserait la fille la plus riche et la plus intelligente de la lande, peut-être pas la plus jolie, « mais on ne se demande pas si elle est jolie ou laide, on subit son charme ».
Potassez plutôt les sciences, les mathématiques, et votre histoire, où vous vous montrez si faible…
This word in other languages
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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