pouvons
\pu.vɔ̃\
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
- pensais
pensais
98,074 corpus weight
- perd
perd
98,073 corpus weight
- plans
plans
98,072 corpus weight
- pouvons
pouvons
98,071 corpus weight
- pratiques
pratiques
98,070 corpus weight
- quelles
quelles
98,069 corpus weight
What this shows « pouvons » 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 | pouvons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pu.vɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pouvons »
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
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de pouvoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pouvons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).