pouls
\pu\
The verdict
“pouls” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,870. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,870
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pouls · pouls · French
pouls · rank #13,870 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,870
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pou
Nearest frequency peer: pou (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pouls »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- positivement
positivement
86,134 corpus weight
- possessions
possessions
86,133 corpus weight
- pou
pou
86,132 corpus weight
- pouls
pouls
86,131 corpus weight
- pourrir
pourrir
86,130 corpus weight
- poursuivie
poursuivie
86,129 corpus weight
What this shows « pouls » 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 | 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pouls »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around pouls (IPA \pu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,870 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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 generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pouls, with forms such as "opuls", "polus", and "poulls". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pus", "pour", "puis", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pouls, spelled P-O-U-L-S.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pouls appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En lui tâtant le pouls et en s’informant de sa santé, sa main tremblait et ses accents troublés annonçaient un intérêt plus tendre qu’elle n’eût voulu le faire paraître, ….
Freind, en parlant de Petrus Salimis, rapporte plusieurs exemples où, par l’intermittence du pouls, ce médecin prédisait certaines syncopes, dont il prévenait les paroxysmes par la saignée et par d'autres remèdes […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opuls
- polus
- poulls
- poulss
- pousl
- ppouls
- puols
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pouls - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).