pourboire
\puʁ.bwaʁ\
The verdict
“pourboire” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,529. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,529
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appoint que l’on donne comme gratification à celui qui touche une note, qui apporte un paquet, qui rend un service quelconque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourboire · pourboire · French
pourboire · rank #20,529 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,529
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH postérieure
Nearest frequency peer: postérieure (-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 « pourboire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- posteriori
posteriori
79,474 corpus weight
- postérieure
postérieure
79,473 corpus weight
- pourboire
pourboire
79,472 corpus weight
- prestigieus…
prestigieuses
79,471 corpus weight
- prothèse
prothèse
79,470 corpus weight
- proue
proue
79,469 corpus weight
What this shows « pourboire » 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 | pourboire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \puʁ.bwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,529 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pourboire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pourboire (IPA \puʁ.bwaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,529 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Appoint que l’on donne comme gratification à celui qui touche une note, qui apporte un paquet, qui rend un service quelconque.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pourboire, with forms such as "opurboire", "poruboire", and "poubroire". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "pourvoir", "pourboires", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pourboire, spelled P-O-U-R-B-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Appoint que l’on donne comme gratification à celui qui touche une note, qui apporte un paquet, qui rend un service quelconque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pourboire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Croyez-vous, s’écrie-t-il, croyez-vous qu’il m’a demandé un pourboire, cet ivrogne de moujik !
— Ça fait juste le compte : trente centimes pour l’éclairage… quatre francs vingt et trente quatre francs cinquante… et cinquante centimes pour les deux bicyclettes… Vous ne laissez pas un petit pourboire ?… — Mais… je n’ai pas vu de bonne… vous êtes bien la patronne ? — Oui ! Faut vous dire, ma bonne est à la noce d’un de ses cousins ; mais elle rentrera…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opurboire
- poruboire
- poubroire
- pourbboire
- pourbiore
- pourboier
- pourboirre
- pourborie
- pourobire
- pourrboire
- ppourboire
- puorboire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pourboire - 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.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).