poteau
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,218
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
poteau is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce de bois de charpente, posée debout. Pronounced \pɔ.to\. It ranks #7,218 in French word frequency. Often confused with potes and préau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poteau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.to\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,218 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poteau is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɔ.to\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,218 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for poteau, with forms such as "opteau", "poetau", and "potaeu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "potes", "préau", "puceau", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is poteau, spelled P-O-T-E-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pièce de bois de charpente, posée debout.
- 2Grosse et longue pièce de bois posée droit en terre et servant à divers usages.
- 3Haute pièce de bois ou de fer, généralement surmontée d’un disque, qui marque le terme d’une course.
- 4Une des deux pièces verticales du cadre d'un filet, notamment au hockey ou au football/soccer.
- 5Coup au but frappant un des poteaux du filet au lieu d’entrer dans le but.
- 6Les poteaux : Le but, dans certains sports comme le hockey ou le football/soccer.
- 7Compagnon d'affaire ou de loisir ; pote.
- 8Ellipse de poteau d'exécution.
- 9Personne de confiance qui informe les travailleurs de rue sur ce qui se passe dans la rue.
- 10Candidat poteau : Personne mise en candidature dans une circonscription où on sait qu’elle n’a pratiquement aucune chance d’être élue, uniquement pour veiller à ce que le parti ait un candidat dans cette circonscription.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opteau,poetau,potaeu,poteua,potteau,ppoteau,ptoeau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poteau
Misspelling Variants of "poteau"
Frequency rank: #7,218 in French
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