Pouillon
The verdict
“Pouillon” is uncommon French (frequency #98,376 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,376
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pouillon · Pouillon · French
Pouillon · rank #98,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,376
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pousseraient
Nearest frequency peer: pousseraient (+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 « Pouillon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- potel
potel
1,628 corpus weight
- poudrée
poudrée
1,627 corpus weight
- Pouillon
Pouillon
1,625 corpus weight
- pousseraient
pousseraient
1,624 corpus weight
- Praha
Praha
1,623 corpus weight
- prasad
prasad
1,622 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pouillon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pouillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pouillon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pouillon is uncommon French at frequency #98,376 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Pouillon in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Pouillon, spelled P-O-U-I-L-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Landes.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de la Marne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pouillon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un nommé Jean de Pélepouïch, de Mimbaste, qui s'était rendu coupable d'un crime des plus graves, y était condamné à être tiré à quatre chevaux sur la place publique de Clermont. Pour, dit la sentence, un de ses quartiers être pendu à une potence, au pont d’Oro, limite de la Baronie; un second quartier du moulin d’Ibarthe, entre Mimbaste et Pouillon, un tr…
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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