pouliot
\pu.ljo\
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
- poreuse
poreuse
50,714 corpus weight
- posterai
posterai
50,713 corpus weight
- Potsdam
Potsdam
50,712 corpus weight
- pouliot
pouliot
50,710 corpus weight
- Prez
Prez
50,708 corpus weight
- priée
priée
50,706 corpus weight
What this shows « pouliot » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pouliot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.ljo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #49,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pouliot »
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
- 1Nom 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 exampleThese source excerpts show how pouliot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).