pouliche
\pu.liʃ\
The verdict
“pouliche” is uncommon French (frequency #57,515 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,515
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune jument, de moins de trois ans.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pouliche · pouliche · French
pouliche · rank #57,515 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,515
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poum
Nearest frequency peer: poum (+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 « pouliche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- polenta
polenta
42,490 corpus weight
- politisés
politisés
42,489 corpus weight
- Polska
Polska
42,488 corpus weight
- pouliche
pouliche
42,486 corpus weight
- poum
poum
42,485 corpus weight
- pressantes
pressantes
42,483 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pouliche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pouliche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.liʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,515 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pouliche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pouliche is uncommon French at frequency #57,515 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pu.liʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for pouliche in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pouliche, spelled P-O-U-L-I-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Jeune jument, de moins de trois ans.
- 2Jeune fille (affectueusement).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pouliche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’eus une jolie pouliche de l’aventure des capucins ; apparemment que la jument avoit, en ce moment, regardé le révérend père Alléluïa de Québec, car la pouliche étoit une bête à longs poils.
nᵒ 2 Une médaille d'argent à M. Prigent Cougard, de Plouénan (Finistère), pour sa pouliche Mystère, dont suit le signalement : espèce carrossière ; âge, deux ans; robe aubère; taille 1 m. 54; origine : père, Sénégal, demi-sang; aug. normand; […].
Synonyms
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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