pourrave
\pu.ʁav\
The verdict
“pourrave” is uncommon French (frequency #77,808 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,808
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nul ; minable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourrave · pourrave · French
pourrave · rank #77,808 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,808
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poudrier
Nearest frequency peer: poudrier (-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 « pourrave »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- porteras
porteras
22,196 corpus weight
- posséda
posséda
22,195 corpus weight
- poudrier
poudrier
22,194 corpus weight
- pourrave
pourrave
22,193 corpus weight
- poverty
poverty
22,192 corpus weight
- poêlée
poêlée
22,191 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pourrave » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pourrave |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pu.ʁav\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #77,808 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pourrave » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pourrave is uncommon French at frequency #77,808 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pu.ʁav\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nul ; minable.".
pourrave doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pourrave, spelled P-O-U-R-R-A-V-E.
Definition
- 1Nul ; minable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pourrave appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je ne pouvais déplacer cette télévision pourrave que j’avais installée sur quatre briques branlantes.
Toutes ces nuits de planque dans des bagnoles pourraves alors que vous pétiez dans la soie, ces centaines de crevures arrêtées et aussitôt relâchés par des juges à la mords moi le nœud. Qu’est-ce que j’y ai gagné ? Des nèfles !
Synonyms
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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