poumon

\pu.mɔ̃\

/\pu.mɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“poumon” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,024. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,024
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Viscère spongieux renfermé dans l’intérieur de la poitrine et qui est le principal organe de la respiration.

Corpus desk

Index FR-poumon · poumon · French

poumon · rank #12,024 · 8 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,024
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH postérité

Nearest frequency peer: postérité (-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 « poumon »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « poumon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

poumon vs poutou
67% similar
poumon vs pouvons
71% similar
poumon vs poumons
86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for poumon
PropertyValue
Headwordpoumon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pu.mɔ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#12,024
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poumon »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).poumonse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « postérité » (#12,023), « pratiquant » (#12,025), « Polonaise » (#12,022). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « poumon » est au #12,024. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around poumon (IPA \pu.mɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,024 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for poumon, with forms such as "opumon", "pomuon", and "poummon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "poutou", "pouvons", "poumons", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is poumon, spelled P-O-U-M-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Viscère spongieux renfermé dans l’intérieur de la poitrine et qui est le principal organe de la respiration.
  2. 2
    Chacune des deux parties qui forment cet organe et qui sont séparées l’une de l’autre par le médiastin et par le cœur.
  3. 3
    Souffle, force pulmonaire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how poumon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. S'il n'y a aucun signe plessimétrique ou stéthoscopique indiquant une lésion superficielle du poumon, et si la respiration est simplement affaiblie, on ne peut guère hésiter qu'entre l'existence d'indurations centrales ou disséminées et un état emphysémateux du poumon.
  2. TOINETTE : Qui est votre médecin ? ARGAN : Monsieur Purgon. TOINETTE : Cet homme-là n'est point écrit sur mes tablettes entre les grands médecins. De quoi dit-il que vous êtes malade ? ARGAN : Il dit que c’est du foie, et d’autres disent que c’est de la rate. TOINETTE : Ce sont tous des ignorants. C’est du poumon que vous êtes malade. ARGAN : Du poumon ?…

Synonyms

éponge

This word in other languages

lung(English)pulmón(Español)Lunge(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opumon
  • pomuon
  • poummon
  • poumno
  • poumonn
  • pouomn
  • ppoumon
  • puomon

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poumon - 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.

opumon2pomuon2poummon1poumno2poumonn1pouomn2ppoumon1puomon2
Edit distance from "poumon"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poumon"?
"poumon" is spelled P-O-U-M-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.mɔ̃\.
What does "poumon" mean?
As a noun, "poumon" means: Viscère spongieux renfermé dans l’intérieur de la poitrine et qui est le principal organe de la respiration.
What words are commonly confused with "poumon"?
"poumon" is commonly confused with "poutou", "pouvons", "poumons". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "poumon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poumon" is \pu.mɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poumon" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poumon", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

payées#12,016rabais#12,034Olivia#12,011recrue#12,039

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

médian8 variantsrigide8 variantsréussis8 variantssituer8 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list