pourriel
\pu.ʁjɛl\
The verdict
“pourriel” is an uncommon French word, ranked #99,497 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #99,497
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Désigne les communications électroniques de masse, notamment de courrier électronique, sans sollicitation des destinataires, à des fins publicitaires ou malhonnêtes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pourriel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.ʁjɛl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,497 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pourriel” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pourriel is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pu.ʁjɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #99,497 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Désigne les communications électroniques de masse, notamment de courrier électronique, sans sollicitation des destinataires, à des fins publicitaires ou malhonnêtes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pourriel in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pourriel, spelled P-O-U-R-R-I-E-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Désigne les communications électroniques de masse, notamment de courrier électronique, sans sollicitation des destinataires, à des fins publicitaires ou malhonnêtes.
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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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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-U-R-R-I-E-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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