pots
\po\
The verdict
“pots” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,442. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,442
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pots · pots · French
pots · rank #8,442 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,442
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poker
Nearest frequency peer: poker (-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 « pots »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- passager
passager
91,563 corpus weight
- plateformes
plateformes
91,562 corpus weight
- poker
poker
91,560 corpus weight
- pots
pots
91,559 corpus weight
- profitent
profitent
91,558 corpus weight
- protecteur
protecteur
91,557 corpus weight
What this shows « pots » 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 | pots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \po\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,442 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pots »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around pots (IPA \po\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,442 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pot.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for pots, with forms such as "opts", "potss", and "potts". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PS", "Pt", "pts", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pots, spelled P-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pots appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle achetait les onguents, des pots de fard, des crayons, qui traînaient sur tous les meubles, avec des houppettes de poudre de riz et des flacons d’odeur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opts
- potss
- potts
- ppots
- ptos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pots - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).