poutou
\pu.tu\
The verdict
“poutou” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,261. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,261
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bisou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poutou · poutou · French
poutou · rank #34,261 · 7 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,261
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poulains
Nearest frequency peer: poulains (-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 « poutou »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- poitevin
poitevin
65,743 corpus weight
- Pontiac
Pontiac
65,742 corpus weight
- poulains
poulains
65,741 corpus weight
- poutou
poutou
65,740 corpus weight
- PRG
PRG
65,739 corpus weight
- Primat
Primat
65,738 corpus weight
What this shows « poutou » 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 | poutou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.tu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « poutou »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around poutou (IPA \pu.tu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,261 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Bisou.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for poutou, with forms such as "oputou", "potuou", and "pouotu". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "poutre", "poto", "porto", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is poutou, spelled P-O-U-T-O-U.
Definition
- 1Bisou.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poutou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je reçus une carte postale de Barbara, du Maroc, avec plein de poutous dessinés dans des cœurs.
Elle s’affaire près de Févier, revient me faire des guili-guili et des poutous, partout. Je suis aux anges. Si ça durait !
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oputou
- potuou
- pouotu
- pouttou
- poutuo
- ppoutou
- puotou
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of poutou - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "poutou", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).