poudrée

\pu.dʁe\

/\pu.dʁe\/ adj

The verdict

“poudrée” is uncommon French (frequency #98,374 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#98,374
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de poudré'

Corpus desk

Index FR-poudree · poudrée · French

poudrée · rank #98,374 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #98,374
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH potel

Nearest frequency peer: potel (-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 « poudrée »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poudrée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for poudrée
PropertyValue
Headwordpoudrée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pu.dʁe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#98,374
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « poudrée » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.poudréetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « potel » (#98,373), « Pouillon » (#98,376), « pousseraient » (#98,377). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « poudrée » est au #98,374. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

poudrée is uncommon French at frequency #98,374 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pu.dʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de poudré'".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for poudrée, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is poudrée, spelled P-O-U-D-R-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de poudré'

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poudrée"?
"poudrée" is spelled P-O-U-D-R-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.dʁe\.
What does "poudrée" mean?
As an adjective, "poudrée" means: Féminin singulier de poudré'
How do you pronounce "poudrée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poudrée" is \pu.dʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poudrée" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poudrée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list