poutrelle
\put.ʁɛl\
The verdict
“poutrelle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite poutre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-poutrelle · poutrelle · French
poutrelle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poutrelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \put.ʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « poutrelle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
poutrelle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \put.ʁɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
poutrelle has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is poutrelle, spelled P-O-U-T-R-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petite poutre.
- 2Solive de fer en forme de double T.
- 3Profilé d'acier obtenu par laminage, de formes diverses (profil en C, en U, en I, en H)
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how poutrelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le plafond était à poutrelles de hêtre relevées par des nervures dorées.
Une poutrelle, …, fut dressée et fortement enfoncée dans la terre et le sable dont se composait le monticule.
Synonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.