poussette
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,245
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
poussette is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom de divers jeux d’enfants. Pronounced \pu.sɛt\. Often confused with poussettes and poussée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poussette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.sɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #20,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for poussette is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pu.sɛt\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,245 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for poussette, with forms such as "opussette", "posusette", and "pousestte". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "poussettes", "poussée", "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 poussette, spelled P-O-U-S-S-E-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom de divers jeux d’enfants.
- 2Petite voiture que l’on pousse, et qui sert généralement à déplacer les enfants en bas âge.
- 3Poussette de marché : charrette fermée que l’on tire pour faire ses courses et les ramener chez soi, parfois avec 3 jeux de roues pour passer les escaliers.
- 4Action de pousser un coureur, que ce soit dans une montée ou un passage difficile par un piéton en cyclisme sur route, ou sur le vélodrome par un coéquipier en cyclisme sur piste.
- 5Technique utilisée lors de l'injection en intraveineuse de substances psychotropes qui consiste pendant l' injection à aspirer un peu de sang (la tirette) dans la seringue, puis de continuer l'injection. Cette pratique est normalement destinée à provoquer un deuxième flash.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: opussette,posusette,pousestte,pousette,poussete,poussetet,pousstete,ppoussette,puossette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for poussette
Misspelling Variants of "poussette"
Frequency rank: #20,245 in French
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Nearby French words
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