poussons
\pu.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“poussons” is uncommon French (frequency #61,795 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,795
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de pousser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poussons · poussons · French
poussons · rank #61,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,795
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pren
Nearest frequency peer: pren (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « poussons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Poligny
Poligny
38,209 corpus weight
- polyuréthane
polyuréthane
38,208 corpus weight
- poussons
poussons
38,206 corpus weight
- pren
pren
38,205 corpus weight
- prescripteu…
prescripteurs
38,204 corpus weight
- pressaient
pressaient
38,203 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « poussons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poussons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pu.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poussons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poussons is uncommon French at frequency #61,795 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pu.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
poussons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is poussons, spelled P-O-U-S-S-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de pousser.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de pousser.
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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