poumon à bretelles
\pu.mɔ̃ a bʁə.tɛl\
The verdict
“poumon à bretelles” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accordéon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poumon-a-bretelles · poumon à bretelles · French
poumon à bretelles · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poumon à bretelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.mɔ̃ a bʁə.tɛl\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poumon à bretelles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poumon à bretelles is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pu.mɔ̃ a bʁə.tɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Accordéon.".
poumon à bretelles doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 poumon à bretelles, spelled P-O-U-M-O-N- -À- -B-R-E-T-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Accordéon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poumon à bretelles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est un fils de prolo du sud de Paris… Le père bossait dans un bagne genre Alliages du Rhône, Vitry, et le dimanche il actionnait le poumon à bretelles dans les guinguettes des bords de Marne.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.