potus
\pɔ.ty\
The verdict
“potus” is uncommon French (frequency #85,147 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,147
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de potu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-potus · potus · French
potus · rank #85,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,147
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pouffiasse
Nearest frequency peer: pouffiasse (+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 « potus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- polski
polski
14,858 corpus weight
- polype
polype
14,857 corpus weight
- potus
potus
14,854 corpus weight
- pouffiasse
pouffiasse
14,853 corpus weight
- pourrisse
pourrisse
14,852 corpus weight
- poussive
poussive
14,851 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « potus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | potus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɔ.ty\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « potus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
potus is uncommon French at frequency #85,147 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɔ.ty\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de potu.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for potus, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is potus, spelled P-O-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de potu.
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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