pouponnière
\pu.pɔ.njɛʁ\
The verdict
“pouponnière” is uncommon French (frequency #67,786 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,786
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Établissement où l’on soigne, où l’on garde les petits enfants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pouponniere · pouponnière · French
pouponnière · rank #67,786 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,786
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Portia
Nearest frequency peer: Portia (-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 « pouponnière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- polyculture
polyculture
32,219 corpus weight
- pondérés
pondérés
32,218 corpus weight
- Portia
Portia
32,216 corpus weight
- pouponnière
pouponnière
32,215 corpus weight
- pourcents
pourcents
32,214 corpus weight
- PRL
PRL
32,212 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pouponnière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pouponnière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.pɔ.njɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,786 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pouponnière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pouponnière is uncommon French at frequency #67,786 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pu.pɔ.njɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
pouponnière has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pouponnière, spelled P-O-U-P-O-N-N-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Établissement où l’on soigne, où l’on garde les petits enfants.
- 2Endroit où l'on bénéficie de conditions de vie privilégiées.
- 3Espace dédié à la culture des semis ou des plantules.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pouponnière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais comment, cependant, ne pas consacrer au moins un mot à cette admirable pouponnière, à cette garderie, à ces parcs à bébés où les jeunes mères déposent leurs petits, qu’elles viennent, à intervalles réguliers, allaiter avec des précautions de propreté, une incessante éducation d’hygiène dont je m’émerveille ?
On la réchauffa à l’aide de serviettes souillées du sang de sa mère, puis on la sécha dans un torchon blanc et rugueux dans lequel on l’enveloppa et l’on courut lui administrer les premiers soins dans la pouponnière.
This word in other languages
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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