poupées

\pu.pe\

/\pu.pe\/ noun

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The verdict

“poupées” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,537. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#14,537
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de poupée.

Corpus desk

Index FR-poupees · poupées · French

poupées · rank #14,537 · 10 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #14,537
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH plaza

Nearest frequency peer: plaza (-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 « poupées »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « poupées » 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).

poupées vs poussés
57% similar
poupées vs poutres
71% similar
poupées vs poussées
75% similar

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

Key facts for poupées
PropertyValue
Headwordpoupées
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pu.pe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#14,537
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poupées »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).poupéesse 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 « plaza » (#14,536), « president » (#14,538), « persécution » (#14,535). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « poupées » est au #14,537. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around poupées (IPA \pu.pe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,537 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de poupée.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for poupées, with forms such as "opupées", "popuées", and "poupees". 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 17 confusable-pair relationships, "poussés", "poutres", "poussées", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is poupées, spelled P-O-U-P-É-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de poupée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Ce mot « artiste », ce que ça peut en faire baver des poupées !

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opupées
  • popuées
  • poupees
  • poupeés
  • pouppées
  • poupéess
  • poupése
  • pouépes
  • ppoupées
  • puopées

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poupées - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

opupées2popuées2poupees1poupeés2pouppées1poupéess1poupése2pouépes2
Edit distance from "poupées"

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 "poupées"?
"poupées" is spelled P-O-U-P-É-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.pe\.
What does "poupées" mean?
As a noun, "poupées" means: Pluriel de poupée.
What words are commonly confused with "poupées"?
"poupées" is commonly confused with "poussés", "poutres", "poussées". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "poupées"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poupées" is \pu.pe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poupées" come from?
"poupées" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Rebecca#14,546offices#14,525restées#14,550ménager#14,520

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

royales10 variantsmosaïque10 variantsSibérie10 variantsmaximal10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list