poubelle
\pu.bɛl\
The verdict
“poubelle” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,007. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,007
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récipient destiné à recevoir des détritus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poubelle · poubelle · French
poubelle · rank #6,007 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,007
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pompe
Nearest frequency peer: pompe (-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 « poubelle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- paroisse
paroisse
93,997 corpus weight
- participent
participent
93,996 corpus weight
- pompe
pompe
93,995 corpus weight
- poubelle
poubelle
93,994 corpus weight
- pourrai
pourrai
93,993 corpus weight
- prier
prier
93,992 corpus weight
What this shows « poubelle » 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 | poubelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.bɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #6,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poubelle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around poubelle (IPA \pu.bɛl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,007 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 poubelle, with forms such as "opubelle", "pobuelle", and "poubbelle". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pucelle", "prunelle", "poubelles", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is poubelle, spelled P-O-U-B-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Récipient destiné à recevoir des détritus.
- 2Ensemble des ordures.
- 3Mécanisme logiciel qui permet de mettre à l’écart des fichiers qu’on envisage de supprimer → voir corbeille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poubelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il lui fallait pêcher sa croûte, n’importe comment, dans les poubelles, à plat ventre, dans la fange, dans la m... Tout d’ailleurs n’était que m... La société, la belle société, un vaste pot de m..., un gulf-stream de m...
Les zoniers sont nombreux encore qui habitent des cabanes plus ou moins construites avec de vieilles boites à sardines. L'industrie des chiffons et l'exploration matutinale des poubelles ne leur permettent pas de villas plus cossues.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opubelle
- pobuelle
- poubbelle
- poubele
- poubelel
- poublele
- poueblle
- ppoubelle
- puobelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poubelle - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poubelle", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).