pouvons

\pu.vɔ̃\

/\pu.vɔ̃\/ verb

The verdict

“pouvons” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,930. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,930
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-pouvons · pouvons · French

pouvons · rank #1,930 · 10 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,930
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH plans

Nearest frequency peer: plans (-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 « pouvons »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « pouvons » 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).

pouvons vs poumon
71% similar
pouvons vs posons
71% similar
pouvons vs pouvoir
71% similar

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

Key facts for pouvons
PropertyValue
Headwordpouvons
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pu.vɔ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,930
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pouvons »

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

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « plans » (#1,929), « pratiques » (#1,931), « perd » (#1,928). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pouvons » est au #1,930. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around pouvons (IPA \pu.vɔ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,930 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de pouvoir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pouvons, with forms such as "opuvons", "pouovns", and "pouvnos". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "poumon", "posons", "pouvoir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 pouvons, spelled P-O-U-V-O-N-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de pouvoir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Si nous avons admis avec certains physiciens d’aujourd’hui que science et mystique étaient les deux manifestations en nous d’une réalité Une (le Réel), nous ne pouvons plus à partir de notre expérience dés-anthropomorphiser, dés-animiser radicalement l’Univers dans son ensemble.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • opuvons
  • pouovns
  • pouvnos
  • pouvonns
  • pouvonss
  • pouvosn
  • pouvvons
  • povuons
  • ppouvons
  • puovons

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pouvons - 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.

opuvons2pouovns2pouvnos2pouvonns1pouvonss1pouvosn2pouvvons1povuons2
Edit distance from "pouvons"

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 "pouvons"?
"pouvons" is spelled P-O-U-V-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pu.vɔ̃\.
What does "pouvons" mean?
As a verb, "pouvons" means: Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de pouvoir.
What words are commonly confused with "pouvons"?
"pouvons" is commonly confused with "poumon", "posons", "pouvoir". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pouvons"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pouvons" is \pu.vɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pouvons" come from?
"pouvons" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list