potences
\pɔ.tɑ̃s\
The verdict
“potences” is uncommon French (frequency #90,052 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,052
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de potence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-potences · potences · French
potences · rank #90,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,052
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH postera
Nearest frequency peer: postera (-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 « potences »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- populeux
populeux
9,953 corpus weight
- postcolonia…
postcoloniale
9,951 corpus weight
- postera
postera
9,950 corpus weight
- potences
potences
9,949 corpus weight
- pouding
pouding
9,948 corpus weight
- pourvois
pourvois
9,947 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « potences » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potences |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.tɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « potences » en français
Rare enough to double-check
potences is uncommon French at frequency #90,052 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.tɑ̃s\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de potence.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for potences, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 potences, spelled P-O-T-E-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de potence.
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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