poudre
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,269
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
poudre is aFrenchnoun. It means: Poussière. Pronounced \pudʁ\. It ranks #4,269 in French word frequency. Often confused with pour and pure.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poudre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pudʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poudre is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pudʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,269 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for poudre, with forms such as "opudre", "podure", and "pouddre". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pour", "pure", "poule", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is poudre, spelled P-O-U-D-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Poussière.
- 2Substance solide broyée ou pilée.
- 3Produit pulvérisé dont on se sert en parfumerie et en médecine.
- 4Sable dont on saupoudre l’écriture pour la sécher.
- 5Amidon ou du riz pulvérisé dont on se sert pour la toilette.
- 6Poudre noire ; Mélange explosif dont on charge les armes à feu.
- 7Propulseur de fusée.
- 8Fin duvet produit par certaines espèces d’oiseaux et se présentant un peu comme des pellicules
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opudre,podure,pouddre,pouder,poudrre,pourde,ppoudre,puodre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poudre
Misspelling Variants of "poudre"
Frequency rank: #4,269 in French
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