potin
\pɔ.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“potin” is uncommon French (frequency #61,050 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,050
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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, ...
| 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) |
Where “potin” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
potin is uncommon French at frequency #61,050 among 248,534 “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.
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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Using “potin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-T-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.