poudreuse
\pu.dʁøz\
The verdict
“poudreuse” is uncommon French (frequency #52,274 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,274
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Neige peu compacte et légère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poudreuse · poudreuse · French
poudreuse · rank #52,274 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,274
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH porteraient
Nearest frequency peer: porteraient (-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 « poudreuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poissonnière
poissonnière
47,730 corpus weight
- polychrome
polychrome
47,729 corpus weight
- porteraient
porteraient
47,728 corpus weight
- poudreuse
poudreuse
47,727 corpus weight
- poupon
poupon
47,726 corpus weight
- pourchassés
pourchassés
47,725 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poudreuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poudreuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.dʁøz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,274 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poudreuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poudreuse is uncommon French at frequency #52,274 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pu.dʁøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for poudreuse, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is poudreuse, spelled P-O-U-D-R-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Neige peu compacte et légère.
- 2Coiffeuse, petite table de toilette, de maquillage, munie d'un miroir.
- 3Appareil destiné à disperser une poudre quelconque.
- 4Appareil destiné à disperser une poudre quelconque.
- 5Appareil destiné à disperser une poudre quelconque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poudreuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est donc dans la poudreuse jusqu'à la taille qu'ils apprivoisent l'usage de la motoneige en territoire escarpé et boisé.
À 40 minutes de Québec, on a l'impression que nos raquettes s'enfoncent dans la ouate tellement la poudreuse est humide, le temps doux aidant.
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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