pourri
\pu.ʁi\
The verdict
“pourri” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,227. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,227
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ou Qui est en état de pourriture ou de corruption.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourri · pourri · French
pourri · rank #6,227 · 6 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,227
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH porto
Nearest frequency peer: porto (-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 « pourri »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- patrie
patrie
93,777 corpus weight
- payant
payant
93,776 corpus weight
- porto
porto
93,775 corpus weight
- pourri
pourri
93,774 corpus weight
- renvoie
renvoie
93,773 corpus weight
- ressentir
ressentir
93,771 corpus weight
What this shows « pourri » 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 | pourri |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pu.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,227 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pourri »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around pourri (IPA \pu.ʁi\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,227 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for pourri, with forms such as "opurri", "poruri", and "pouri". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "pourvu", "poutre", "pourrie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pourri, spelled P-O-U-R-R-I.
Definition
- 1ou Qui est en état de pourriture ou de corruption.
- 2Qui est de très médiocre qualité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pourri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Son imagination enflammée lui représentait une de ces sombres fosses dont on ne parlait qu’à voix basse, où le malheureux qu’on y enfermait vivait de pain noir et d’eau pourrie – en attendant que la mort vînt le délivrer.
Cet enfant unique est d’ailleurs élevé très mal : un enfant gâté, dorloté, pourri d’égoïsme.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opurri
- poruri
- pouri
- pourir
- ppourri
- puorri
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pourri - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).