pouvoirs
\pu.vwaʁ\
The verdict
“pouvoirs” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,967. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,967
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pouvoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pouvoirs · pouvoirs · French
pouvoirs · rank #1,967 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,967
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Post
Nearest frequency peer: Post (-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 « pouvoirs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- plage
plage
98,037 corpus weight
- policiers
policiers
98,036 corpus weight
- Post
Post
98,035 corpus weight
- pouvoirs
pouvoirs
98,034 corpus weight
- procédure
procédure
98,033 corpus weight
- produire
produire
98,032 corpus weight
What this shows « pouvoirs » 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 | pouvoirs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.vwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pouvoirs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around pouvoirs (IPA \pu.vwaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,967 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pouvoir.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for pouvoirs, with forms such as "opuvoirs", "pouovirs", and "pouviors". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "pouvons", "pouvoir", "pouvais", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pouvoirs, spelled P-O-U-V-O-I-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pouvoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pouvoirs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pouvoirs de police constituent l’enjeu d’une lutte séculaire qui tourne autour de cette question fondamentale : la police est-elle une prérogative municipale ou ressortit-elle au domaine de l’Etat ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- opuvoirs
- pouovirs
- pouviors
- pouvoirrs
- pouvoirss
- pouvoisr
- pouvoris
- pouvvoirs
- povuoirs
- ppouvoirs
- puovoirs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pouvoirs - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).