pousseur de bois
The verdict
“pousseur de bois” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Joueur d’échecs plutôt faible.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pousseur de bois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.sœʁ də bwa\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pousseur de bois” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pousseur de bois is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pu.sœʁ də bwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Joueur d’échecs plutôt faible.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pousseur de bois in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 pousseur de bois, spelled P-O-U-S-S-E-U-R- -D-E- -B-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Joueur d’échecs plutôt faible.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-O-U-S-S-E-U-R- -D-E- -B-O-I-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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