pouliot

\pu.ljo\

/\pu.ljo\/ noun

The verdict

“pouliot” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,291. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,291
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom usuel de Mentha pulegium plante herbacée, vivace, rhizomateuse, de la famille des Lamiacées, genre de menthe originaire d’une zone allant de la côte sud de la méditerranée jusqu’à l’Asie centra...

Corpus desk

Index FR-pouliot · pouliot · French

pouliot · rank #49,291 · 9 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,291
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH Potsdam

Nearest frequency peer: Potsdam (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pouliot »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pouliot » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pouliot vs polio
71% similar
pouliot vs poulet
71% similar
pouliot vs poulie
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pouliot
PropertyValue
Headwordpouliot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pu.ljo\
Letters7
Frequency rank#49,291
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pouliot »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).pouliotse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Potsdam » (#49,289), « Prez » (#49,293), « posterai » (#49,288). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pouliot » est au #49,291. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around pouliot (IPA \pu.ljo\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,291 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Nom usuel de Mentha pulegium plante herbacée, vivace, rhizomateuse, de la famille des Lamiacées, genre de menthe originaire d’une zone allant de la côte sud de la méditerranée jusqu’à l’Asie centra...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pouliot, with forms such as "opuliot", "poluiot", and "pouilot". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "polio", "poulet", "poulie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pouliot, spelled P-O-U-L-I-O-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom usuel de Mentha pulegium plante herbacée, vivace, rhizomateuse, de la famille des Lamiacées, genre de menthe originaire d’une zone allant de la côte sud de la méditerranée jusqu’à l’Asie centrale. Elle se caractérise par des concentrations parfois élevées en pulégone.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how pouliot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les eaux distillées […] de marjolaine, de mélisse, de menthe crépue, de pouliot […] de sauge, de sureau, de tilleul, se préparent comme celle de camomille, et ont chacune l’odeur de la plante employée.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opuliot
  • poluiot
  • pouilot
  • pouliott
  • poulito
  • poulliot
  • pouloit
  • ppouliot
  • puoliot

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pouliot - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

opuliot2poluiot2pouilot2pouliott1poulito2poulliot1pouloit2ppouliot1
Edit distance from "pouliot"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pouliot"?
"pouliot" is spelled P-O-U-L-I-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.ljo\.
What does "pouliot" mean?
As a noun, "pouliot" means: Nom usuel de Mentha pulegium plante herbacée, vivace, rhizomateuse, de la famille des Lamiacées, genre de menthe originaire d’une zone allant de la côte sud de la méditerranée jusqu’à l’Asie centra...
What words are commonly confused with "pouliot"?
"pouliot" is commonly confused with "polio", "poulet", "poulie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pouliot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pouliot" is \pu.ljo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pouliot" come from?
"pouliot" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pouliot", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list