poule mouillée
\pul mu.je\
The verdict
“poule mouillée” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Personne qui manque de courage et de résolution.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poule mouillée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pul mu.je\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “poule mouillée” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poule mouillée is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pul mu.je\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Personne qui manque de courage et de résolution.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for poule mouillée in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is poule mouillée, spelled P-O-U-L-E- -M-O-U-I-L-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui manque de courage et de résolution.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “poule mouillée”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-U-L-E- -M-O-U-I-L-L-É-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pul mu.je\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.