poupart

\pu.paʁ\

/\pu.paʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“poupart” is uncommon French (frequency #79,633 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,633
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tourteau (le crabe).

Corpus desk

Index FR-poupart · poupart · French

poupart · rank #79,633 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #79,633
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH postopératoire

Nearest frequency peer: postopératoire (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « poupart »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poupart » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for poupart
PropertyValue
Headwordpoupart
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pu.paʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#79,633
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « poupart » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).pouparttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « postopératoire » (#79,632), « praticité » (#79,634), « ponds » (#79,630). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « poupart » est au #79,633. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

poupart is uncommon French at frequency #79,633 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pu.paʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tourteau (le crabe).".

No misspelling variants are generated for poupart in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is poupart, spelled P-O-U-P-A-R-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tourteau (le crabe).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. De cette claſſe ſont : le pou, le podure, la forbicine, la puce, la pince, la tique, le ciron, le faucheur, l’araignée, le monocle, le binocle, le cloporte, l’aſelle, le ſcolopendre ou mille-pieds, l’iule, la tarentule, le ſcorpion, la crevette, le ſoldat ou le bernard hermite, le jule, le cancre ou araignée de mer, le poupart, le langouſte, le crabe, l’é…
  2. Tantôt avec les lassets, tantôt à l’aide de la bourraque, il faisait une petite récolte de ces belles crevettes roses (quand elles sont cuites) et qu’on appelle le bouquet; muni de l’attirail que j’ai décrit plus haut, il se livrait à une guerre acharnée contre toute la légion des crabes, pouparts, claquarts et craparagdis, sans compter les célèbres pieuv…

Synonyms

dormeurcrabe-de-lunepoing-closclos-poingouvet

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 "poupart"?
"poupart" is spelled P-O-U-P-A-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.paʁ\.
What does "poupart" mean?
As a noun, "poupart" means: Tourteau (le crabe).
How do you pronounce "poupart"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poupart" is \pu.paʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list