poularde
\pu.laʁd\
The verdict
“poularde” is uncommon French (frequency #84,184 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,184
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune poule engraissée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poularde · poularde · French
poularde · rank #84,184 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,184
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pontier
Nearest frequency peer: pontier (-2 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 « poularde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poitevins
poitevins
15,821 corpus weight
- ponctuations
ponctuations
15,820 corpus weight
- pontier
pontier
15,819 corpus weight
- poularde
poularde
15,817 corpus weight
- practical
practical
15,815 corpus weight
- preserve
preserve
15,814 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poularde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poularde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.laʁd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,184 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poularde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poularde is uncommon French at frequency #84,184 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pu.laʁd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for poularde in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is poularde, spelled P-O-U-L-A-R-D-E.
Definition
- 1Jeune poule engraissée.
- 2Terme affectueux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poularde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La nourriture incrassante qu’elles recevaient de la main de leur maître, en les faisant passer peu à peu à l’état de poulardes, nuisait à la régularité de leur pondaison.
Avec peu de soins et en peu de temps vous aurez des poulardes , des poulettes et des poulets d’une saveur exquise.
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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