poussèrent
\pu.sɛʁ\
The verdict
“poussèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #68,561 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,561
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de pousser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pousserent · poussèrent · French
poussèrent · rank #68,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,561
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ponctionner
Nearest frequency peer: ponctionner (-3 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 « poussèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pompili
Pompili
31,445 corpus weight
- poncer
poncer
31,444 corpus weight
- ponctionner
ponctionner
31,443 corpus weight
- poussèrent
poussèrent
31,440 corpus weight
- priais
priais
31,437 corpus weight
- probiotiques
probiotiques
31,436 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poussèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poussèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pu.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #68,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poussèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poussèrent is uncommon French at frequency #68,561 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pu.sɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de pousser.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for poussèrent, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is poussèrent, spelled P-O-U-S-S-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de pousser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poussèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En découvrant la forme allongée tapie au milieu de la chaussée, les filles poussèrent un cri.
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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