pourrissement
\pu.ʁis.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“pourrissement” is uncommon French (frequency #58,852 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,852
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Putréfaction, action de pourrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pourrissement · pourrissement · French
pourrissement · rank #58,852 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,852
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH pousseront
Nearest frequency peer: pousseront (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pourrissement”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- possessive
possessive
41,153 corpus weight
- poudrerie
poudrerie
41,151 corpus weight
- pourrisseme…
pourrissement
41,149 corpus weight
- pousseront
pousseront
41,148 corpus weight
- poussif
poussif
41,147 corpus weight
- poussiéreuse
poussiéreuse
41,146 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pourrissement” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pourrissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.ʁis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #58,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pourrissement” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pourrissement is uncommon French at frequency #58,852 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pu.ʁis.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pourrissement, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
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 pourrissement, spelled P-O-U-R-R-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Putréfaction, action de pourrir.
- 2Détérioration le plus souvent volontaire.
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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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pourrissement", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.