poussait

/\pu.sɛ\/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#22,980

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

poussait is aFrenchverb. It means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pousser. Pronounced \pu.sɛ\. Often confused with pouvait and poussin.

Key facts for poussait
PropertyValue
Headwordpoussait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pu.sɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#22,980
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of poussait in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for poussait is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pu.sɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #22,980 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pousser.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for poussait, with forms such as "opussait", "posusait", and "pousait". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "pouvait", "poussin", "poussent", 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 poussait, spelled P-O-U-S-S-A-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pousser.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: opussait,posusait,pousait,pousasit,poussaitt,poussati,poussiat,ppoussait,puossait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poussait

Misspelling Variants of "poussait"

opussait8posusait8pousait7pousasit8poussaitt9poussati8poussiat8ppoussait9
Misspelling Variants of "poussait"

Frequency rank: #22,980 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "poussait"?
"poussait" is spelled P-O-U-S-S-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.sɛ\.
What does "poussait" mean?
As a verb, "poussait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de pousser.
What words are commonly confused with "poussait"?
"poussait" is commonly confused with "pouvait", "poussin", "poussent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "poussait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "poussait" is \pu.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "poussait" come from?
"poussait" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.