pourrie

\pu.ʁi\

/\pu.ʁi\/ adj

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The verdict

“pourrie” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,220. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,220
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
18
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de pourri.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pourrie · pourrie · French

pourrie · rank #12,220 · 7 variants · 18 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,220
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH potentielle

Nearest frequency peer: potentielle (-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 « pourrie »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « pourrie » 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).

pourrie vs poutre
71% similar
pourrie vs pourris
86% similar
pourrie vs pourrir
86% similar

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

Key facts for pourrie
PropertyValue
Headwordpourrie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pu.ʁi\
Letters7
Frequency rank#12,220
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs18
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pourrie »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).pourriese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « potentielle » (#12,219), « pratiquée » (#12,221), « porcs » (#12,218). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pourrie » est au #12,220. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around pourrie (IPA \pu.ʁi\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,220 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de pourri.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for pourrie, with forms such as "opurrie", "porurie", and "pourie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "poutre", "pourris", "pourrir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pourrie, spelled P-O-U-R-R-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de pourri.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Il n’y avait pas trente mètres à franchir, assez toutefois pour que la jambe gangreneuse éclatât par places et laissât des lambeaux de chair noire et pourrie dans le sillage de sanie qui s’inscrivait derrière eux.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opurrie
  • porurie
  • pourie
  • pourire
  • pourrei
  • ppourrie
  • puorrie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pourrie - 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.

opurrie2porurie2pourie1pourire2pourrei2ppourrie1puorrie2
Edit distance from "pourrie"

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 "pourrie"?
"pourrie" is spelled P-O-U-R-R-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.ʁi\.
What does "pourrie" mean?
As an adjective, "pourrie" means: Féminin singulier de pourri.
What words are commonly confused with "pourrie"?
"pourrie" is commonly confused with "poutre", "pourris", "pourrir". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pourrie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pourrie" is \pu.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pourrie" come from?
"pourrie" 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 "pourrie", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list