pouah
\pwa\
The verdict
“pouah” is uncommon French (frequency #54,174 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,174
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exprime le dégoût.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pouah · pouah · French
pouah · rank #54,174 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,174
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH positionnées
Nearest frequency peer: positionnées (-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 « pouah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ponzi
Ponzi
45,830 corpus weight
- porphyre
porphyre
45,829 corpus weight
- positionnées
positionnées
45,828 corpus weight
- pouah
pouah
45,827 corpus weight
- PPR
PPR
45,826 corpus weight
- Priam
Priam
45,825 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pouah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pouah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \pwa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #54,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pouah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pouah is uncommon French at frequency #54,174 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \pwa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Exprime le dégoût.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pouah in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pouah, spelled P-O-U-A-H.
Definition
- 1Exprime le dégoût.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pouah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thisbé se bouche le nez devant Pyrame et dit : Pouah !
Ce contempteur de la ruse ment. Ce flétrisseur de la lâcheté use et mésuse de petits papiers. Pouah !
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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