pouls

/\pu\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#13,870

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

pouls is aFrenchnoun. It means: Battement des artères, produit par le changement périodique de la pression sanguine, qui se fait sentir en plusieurs endroits du corps, et particulièrement vers le poignet. Pronounced \pu\. Often confused with pus and pour.

Key facts for pouls
PropertyValue
Headwordpouls
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pu\
Letters5
Frequency rank#13,870
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pouls in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pouls is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pu\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,870 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Battement des artères, produit par le changement périodique de la pression sanguine, qui se fait sentir en plusieurs endroits du corps, et particulièrement vers le poignet.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for pouls, with forms such as "opuls", "polus", and "poulls". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pus", "pour", "puis", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pouls, spelled P-O-U-L-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Battement des artères, produit par le changement périodique de la pression sanguine, qui se fait sentir en plusieurs endroits du corps, et particulièrement vers le poignet.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: opuls,polus,poulls,poulss,pousl,ppouls,puols

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pouls

Misspelling Variants of "pouls"

opuls5polus5poulls6poulss6pousl5ppouls6puols5
Misspelling Variants of "pouls"

Frequency rank: #13,870 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pouls"?
"pouls" is spelled P-O-U-L-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pu\.
What does "pouls" mean?
As a noun, "pouls" means: Battement des artères, produit par le changement périodique de la pression sanguine, qui se fait sentir en plusieurs endroits du corps, et particulièrement vers le poignet.
What words are commonly confused with "pouls"?
"pouls" is commonly confused with "pus", "pour", "puis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pouls"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pouls" is \pu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pouls" come from?
"pouls" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.