poussah
\pu.sa\
The verdict
“poussah” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jouet d’enfant figurant un magot gros et court qui se balance, quand on le pousse, mais demeure en équilibre sur une base arrondie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poussah · poussah · French
poussah · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poussah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.sa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poussah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poussah is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pu.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for poussah, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is poussah, spelled P-O-U-S-S-A-H.
Definition
- 1Jouet d’enfant figurant un magot gros et court qui se balance, quand on le pousse, mais demeure en équilibre sur une base arrondie.
- 2Homme ridiculement gros et bréviligne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poussah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au contraire on peut montrer, comme on verra plus loin, que si la surface S est sphérique et si G est suffisamment proche de I0, le poussah se redresse après qu’il ait été fortement incliné. Cet équilibre parait paradoxal car nous sommes habitués à des objets reposant sur un fond plat qui peuvent être facilement renversés.
Sa tête allongée, son ventre ballonnant et ses pieds minuscules lui donnaient la silhouette d'un de ces jouets appelés poussahs, dont la base en boule est lestée et qui reviennent toujours à la position verticale quand on les renverse.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.