potin
\pɔ.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“potin” is uncommon French (frequency #61,050 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,050
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de différents alliages de cuivre d'étain et de plomb. En fonction des pourcentages on obtient diverses couleurs qui servent à caractériser cet alliage : Potin gris, potin jaune, ...
Corpus desk
Index FR-potin · potin · French
potin · rank #61,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,050
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH potiche
Nearest frequency peer: potiche (-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 « potin »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- praticables
praticables
38,949 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « potin » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « potin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
potin is uncommon French at frequency #61,050 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔ.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for potin, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is potin, spelled P-O-T-I-N.
Definition
- 1Nom de différents alliages de cuivre d'étain et de plomb. En fonction des pourcentages on obtient diverses couleurs qui servent à caractériser cet alliage : Potin gris, potin jaune, ...
- 2Cucurbite de fer ou de fonte dont on se sert pour certaines distillations, celle des eaux-fortes en particulier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how potin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Marius, un des trente tyrans, qui, n'ayant régné que trois jours et dans les Gaules, a laissé cependant des monnaies d'or, de bronze, et de bronze fortement allié nommé potin.
Au nord, le sanctuaire de Waleppe n'a pas une origine gauloise bien attestée actuellement, les quelques potins découverts étant insuffisants pour l'affirmer.
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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