potiche
\pɔ.tiʃ\
The verdict
“potiche” is uncommon French (frequency #61,049 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,049
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vase de porcelaine de Chine ou du Japon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-potiche · potiche · French
potiche · rank #61,049 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,049
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH postproduction
Nearest frequency peer: postproduction (-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 « potiche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pontificales
pontificales
38,955 corpus weight
- positiver
positiver
38,954 corpus weight
- postproduct…
postproduction
38,953 corpus weight
- potiche
potiche
38,952 corpus weight
- potin
potin
38,951 corpus weight
- poul
poul
38,950 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « potiche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potiche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.tiʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,049 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « potiche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
potiche is uncommon French at frequency #61,049 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.tiʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for potiche, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is potiche, spelled P-O-T-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Vase de porcelaine de Chine ou du Japon.
- 2Personne dont la fonction est de peu d’utilité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how potiche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il évitait la chute d’une grosse potiche japonaise, qu’il avait apostrophée d’un coup de poing.
Le faux cousin regardait le Conseiller d’État comme il eût examiné quelque grosse potiche chinoise.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).