pouviez

\pu.vje\

/\pu.vje\/ verb

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The verdict

“pouviez” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,214. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,214
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de pouvoir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pouviez · pouviez · French

pouviez · rank #16,214 · 9 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,214
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH poussés

Nearest frequency peer: poussés (-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 « pouviez »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pouviez » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pouviez vs prouvez
71% similar
pouviez vs pouvez
86% similar
pouviez vs poulie
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pouviez
PropertyValue
Headwordpouviez
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pu.vje\
Letters7
Frequency rank#16,214
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pouviez »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.pouviezse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « poussés » (#16,213), « postales » (#16,212), « plis » (#16,211). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pouviez » est au #16,214. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around pouviez (IPA \pu.vje\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,214 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de pouvoir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pouviez, with forms such as "opuviez", "pouivez", and "pouveiz". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "prouvez", "pouvez", "poulie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pouviez, spelled P-O-U-V-I-E-Z.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de pouvoir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how pouviez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. « J'aime à quel point les phoques ont l’air mignon, comme si vous pouviez les caresser », commente le photographe Demian Smit.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opuviez
  • pouivez
  • pouveiz
  • pouviezz
  • pouvize
  • pouvviez
  • povuiez
  • ppouviez
  • puoviez

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pouviez - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

opuviez2pouivez2pouveiz2pouviezz1pouvize2pouvviez1povuiez2ppouviez1
Edit distance from "pouviez"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pouviez"?
"pouviez" is spelled P-O-U-V-I-E-Z. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.vje\.
What does "pouviez" mean?
As a verb, "pouviez" means: Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de pouvoir.
What words are commonly confused with "pouviez"?
"pouviez" is commonly confused with "prouvez", "pouvez", "poulie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pouviez"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pouviez" is \pu.vje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pouviez" come from?
"pouviez" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pouviez", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

poussés#16,213prodige#16,217pillage#16,207peuplée#16,205

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

plaqué9 variantsoccupées9 variantsSergueï9 variantsNatalie9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list