pozzo
\ˈpot.t͡so\
The verdict
“pozzo” is uncommon French (frequency #56,186 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,186
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Puits, gouffre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pozzo · pozzo · French
pozzo · rank #56,186 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,186
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH possédées
Nearest frequency peer: possédées (-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 « pozzo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- portiers
portiers
43,818 corpus weight
- poserai
poserai
43,817 corpus weight
- possédées
possédées
43,816 corpus weight
- pozzo
pozzo
43,815 corpus weight
- pressentie
pressentie
43,814 corpus weight
- presta
presta
43,813 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pozzo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pozzo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpot.t͡so\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,186 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pozzo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pozzo is uncommon French at frequency #56,186 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpot.t͡so\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Puits, gouffre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pozzo, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pozzo, spelled P-O-Z-Z-O.
Definition
- 1Puits, gouffre.
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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