poumons
\pu.mɔ̃\
The verdict
“poumons” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,217. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,217
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de poumon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poumons · poumons · French
poumons · rank #9,217 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,217
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poison
Nearest frequency peer: poison (-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 « poumons »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ping
ping
90,787 corpus weight
- plier
plier
90,786 corpus weight
- poison
poison
90,785 corpus weight
- poumons
poumons
90,784 corpus weight
- pourrions
pourrions
90,783 corpus weight
- prendrait
prendrait
90,782 corpus weight
What this shows « poumons » 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 | poumons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.mɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #9,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poumons »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around poumons (IPA \pu.mɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,217 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de poumon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for poumons, with forms such as "opumons", "pomuons", and "poummons". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "pouvons", "pourrons", "pouvions", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 poumons, spelled P-O-U-M-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de poumon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poumons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sa tentative d’émettre un bafouillis réveille déjà l’étage au-dessous, les poumons lourds, le ventre à l’essorage, puis les jambes et les bras méchamment courbaturés, état de faiblesse général, corps nauséeux de haut en bas, vulnérable, sénile.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opumons
- pomuons
- poummons
- poumnos
- poumonns
- poumonss
- poumosn
- pouomns
- ppoumons
- puomons
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poumons - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).