poursuite
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,634
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
poursuite is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de celui ou de celle qui poursuit un homme ou un animal, qui court après pour l’atteindre, pour le prendre. Pronounced \puʁ.sɥit\. It ranks #3,634 in French word frequency. Often confused with poursuivi and poursuive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poursuite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \puʁ.sɥit\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,634 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poursuite is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \puʁ.sɥit\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,634 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for poursuite, with forms such as "opursuite", "porusuite", and "pourrsuite". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "poursuivi", "poursuive", "poursuivre", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 poursuite, spelled P-O-U-R-S-U-I-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de celui ou de celle qui poursuit un homme ou un animal, qui court après pour l’atteindre, pour le prendre.
- 2Action de rechercher avec ardeur quelque chose ; les soins assidus qu’on prend pour l’obtenir.
- 3Action pour un homme, de rechercher la main ou les faveurs d’une femme.
- 4Action juridique intentée contre quelqu’un pour obtenir le paiement d’une créance, la réparation d’un dommage, la punition d’un délit, etc.
- 5Projecteur à faisceau droit dont le rôle est de suivre sur scène les mouvements d’un seul artiste.
- 6Compétition de cyclisme sur piste.
- 7Opération qui consiste à suivre le déplacement d'un objet spatial. (→ voir acquisition, suiveur de satellite et trajectographie).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opursuite,porusuite,pourrsuite,poursiute,pourssuite,poursuiet,poursuitte,poursutie,pourusite,pousruite,ppoursuite,puorsuite
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poursuite
Misspelling Variants of "poursuite"
Frequency rank: #3,634 in French
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Nearby French words
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