pouls
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pouls |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #13,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Battement 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"
Frequency rank: #13,870 in French
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