poussiéreux
\pu.sje.ʁø\
The verdict
“poussiéreux” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,978. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,978
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est plein de poussière ; qui est couvert de poussière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poussiereux · poussiéreux · French
poussiéreux · rank #37,978 · 14 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,978
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH popular
Nearest frequency peer: popular (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « poussiéreux »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poignardée
poignardée
62,026 corpus weight
- poor
poor
62,025 corpus weight
- popular
popular
62,024 corpus weight
- poussiéreux
poussiéreux
62,023 corpus weight
- prisés
prisés
62,022 corpus weight
- probants
probants
62,021 corpus weight
What this shows « poussiéreux » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poussiéreux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pu.sje.ʁø\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #37,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poussiéreux »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around poussiéreux (IPA \pu.sje.ʁø\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,978 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for poussiéreux, with forms such as "opussiéreux", "posusiéreux", and "pousiséreux". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "poussière", "poussières", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is poussiéreux, spelled P-O-U-S-S-I-É-R-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Qui est plein de poussière ; qui est couvert de poussière.
- 2Vieux, démodé, dépassé, rétrograde, fermé au progrès ou à l'évolution.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poussiéreux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La sécheresse était encore plus forte, et la chaleur non moins intolérable sous le souffle poussiéreux du vent du nord, ce simoun des Pampas.
L'ampoule, qui éclairait cette dégringolade d'objets de toute provenance […] se balançait, poussiéreuse, au bout de son fil, sous la voûte basse où le salpêtre faisait des croûtes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opussiéreux
- posusiéreux
- pousiséreux
- pousiéreux
- poussiereux
- poussiréeux
- poussiéerux
- poussiéreuxx
- poussiérexu
- poussiérreux
- poussiéruex
- pousséireux
- ppoussiéreux
- puossiéreux
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poussiéreux - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).