poulpes
\pulp\
The verdict
“poulpes” is uncommon French (frequency #63,257 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,257
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de poulpe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poulpes · poulpes · French
poulpes · rank #63,257 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,257
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH potential
Nearest frequency peer: potential (-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 « poulpes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- poreuses
poreuses
36,747 corpus weight
- Porthos
Porthos
36,746 corpus weight
- potential
potential
36,745 corpus weight
- poulpes
poulpes
36,744 corpus weight
- pratiquons
pratiquons
36,743 corpus weight
- Praud
Praud
36,742 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poulpes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poulpes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pulp\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,257 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poulpes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poulpes is uncommon French at frequency #63,257 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pulp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de poulpe.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for poulpes in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists 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 poulpes, spelled P-O-U-L-P-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de poulpe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poulpes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les poulpes ont tous une salive venimeuse.
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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