potiron
\pɔ.ti.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“potiron” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,363. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,363
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de champignon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-potiron · potiron · French
potiron · rank #46,363 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,363
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH posthumes
Nearest frequency peer: posthumes (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « potiron »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- polluées
polluées
53,641 corpus weight
- positionnent
positionnent
53,640 corpus weight
- posthumes
posthumes
53,639 corpus weight
- potiron
potiron
53,638 corpus weight
- pousserait
pousserait
53,637 corpus weight
- prescrivent
prescrivent
53,636 corpus weight
What this shows « potiron » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potiron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔ.ti.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #46,363 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « potiron »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around potiron (IPA \pɔ.ti.ʁɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,363 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for potiron, with forms such as "optiron", "poitron", and "potiorn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "piron", "patron", "poison", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is potiron, spelled P-O-T-I-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Espèce de champignon.
- 2Nom usuel d'une plante de la famille des Cucurbitaceae, Cucurbita maxima, dont il existe de nombreux cultivars tels ceux nommés communément giraumons, potimarrons ou encore les kabochas du Japon.
- 3Fruit de cette plante consommé comme légume.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how potiron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aux truffes nous accouplerons les mousserons, potirons ou boulets [bolets], pour cueillir en nostre jardin ces fruits passagers et volontaires.
Il faut dire que les connaissances cryptogamiques de Lirot, dressé par son maître, se bornaient à trois variétés : sa voix annonçait toujours soit un cèpe, soit un potiron, ou encore de ces petites oreillettes blanchâtres qui dégagent une forte senteur de farine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- optiron
- poitron
- potiorn
- potirno
- potironn
- potirron
- pottiron
- ppotiron
- ptoiron
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of potiron - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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