powerful
\ˈpaʊ.ə.fʊl\
The verdict
“powerful” is uncommon French (frequency #86,043 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,043
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Puissant, fort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-powerful · powerful · French
powerful · rank #86,043 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,043
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH poutrer
Nearest frequency peer: poutrer (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « powerful »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pourrissant
pourrissant
13,960 corpus weight
- poutrer
poutrer
13,959 corpus weight
- powerful
powerful
13,958 corpus weight
- prati
prati
13,957 corpus weight
- prescience
prescience
13,956 corpus weight
- prescrira
prescrira
13,955 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « powerful » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | powerful |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈpaʊ.ə.fʊl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #86,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « powerful » en français
Rare enough to double-check
powerful is uncommon French at frequency #86,043 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈpaʊ.ə.fʊl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Puissant, fort.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for powerful, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is powerful, spelled P-O-W-E-R-F-U-L.
Definition
- 1Puissant, fort.
Antonyms
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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