poupée

\pu.pe\

/\pu.pe\/ noun

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The verdict

“poupée” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,049. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,049
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figurine de forme humaine qui sert de jouet aux enfants.

Corpus desk

Index FR-poupee · poupée · French

poupée · rank #10,049 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,049
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pisser

Nearest frequency peer: pisser (-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 « poupée »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « poupée » 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).

poupée vs pouvez
50% similar
poupée vs pousse
67% similar
poupée vs poutre
67% similar

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

Key facts for poupée
PropertyValue
Headwordpoupée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pu.pe\
Letters6
Frequency rank#10,049
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poupée »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pisser » (#10,048), « price » (#10,050), « penche » (#10,047). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « poupée » est au #10,049. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around poupée (IPA \pu.pe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,049 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 13 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for poupée, with forms such as "opupée", "popuée", and "poupee". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pouvez", "pousse", "poutre", 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 best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is poupée, spelled P-O-U-P-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Figurine de forme humaine qui sert de jouet aux enfants.
  2. 2
    Coquette, celle ou même de celui qui prend trop de soin de sa personne.
  3. 3
    Mannequin sur lequel on essaie des chapeaux de femme.
  4. 4
    Figure qui sert de but, dans les endroits où l’on s’exerce à tirer au pistolet.
  5. 5
    Pansement dont on entoure un doigt blessé.
  6. 6
    Greffe entourée d’un mélange de terre et de mousse ou de foin, et de bandes de chiffons.
  7. 7
    Petit tampon qui sert à poser des couleurs différentes sur une planche de gravure.
  8. 8
    Nom affectueux pour s’adresser à une femme.
  9. 9
    Terme affectueux pour s’adresser à un petit enfant.
  10. 10
    Figure de proue, sculpture qui orne la proue d’un navire.
  11. 11
    Extrémités des branches d’un arc auxquelles est attachée la corde.
  12. 12
    Épi de maïs.
  13. 13
    Partie cylindrique du cabestan sur laquelle s'enroule le cordage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Acheter une poupée.
  2. Un enfant qui joue avec sa poupée, qui habille sa poupée, qui coiffe sa poupée.

This word in other languages

doll(English)muñeca(Español)Puppe(Deutsch)boneca(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opupée
  • popuée
  • poupee
  • poupeé
  • pouppée
  • pouépe
  • ppoupée
  • puopée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

opupée2popuée2poupee1poupeé2pouppée1pouépe2ppoupée1puopée2
Edit distance from "poupée"

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 "poupée"?
"poupée" is spelled P-O-U-P-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.pe\.
What does "poupée" mean?
As a noun, "poupée" means: Figurine de forme humaine qui sert de jouet aux enfants.
What words are commonly confused with "poupée"?
"poupée" is commonly confused with "pouvez", "pousse", "poutre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "poupée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poupée" is \pu.pe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poupée" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

pisser#10,048penche#10,047Mickey#10,032rousse#10,066

Similar misspelling depth

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

rouleau8 variantssouple8 variantsSuzanne8 variantsfinesse8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list