poussais
\pu.sɛ\
The verdict
“poussais” is uncommon French (frequency #81,452 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,452
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pousser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poussais · poussais · French
poussais · rank #81,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,452
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Poura
Nearest frequency peer: Poura (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « poussais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pommette
pommette
18,553 corpus weight
- poseraient
poseraient
18,552 corpus weight
- possessivité
possessivité
18,551 corpus weight
- Poura
Poura
18,550 corpus weight
- poussais
poussais
18,549 corpus weight
- pressurisée
pressurisée
18,547 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poussais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poussais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pu.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,452 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poussais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poussais is uncommon French at frequency #81,452 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pu.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for poussais, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is poussais, spelled P-O-U-S-S-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pousser.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pousser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poussais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je poussais des cris de putois, étant tombé sur le menton et m’étant fait, d’ailleurs, un mal suffisant pour ne pouvoir remuer les mâchoires qu’avec douleur pendant plusieurs jours.
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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