prendre le pouls
The verdict
“prendre le pouls” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Sonder l’opinion d’une personne en lui posant des questions (de manière régulière), un peu de la même façon que lorsqu'on tâte le pouls.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prendre le pouls |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pʁɑ̃dʁ lə pu\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prendre le pouls” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for prendre le pouls is 16 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pʁɑ̃dʁ lə pu\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sonder l’opinion d’une personne en lui posant des questions (de manière régulière), un peu de la même façon que lorsqu'on tâte le pouls.".
No misspelling variants are generated for prendre le pouls in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is prendre le pouls, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -L-E- -P-O-U-L-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sonder l’opinion d’une personne en lui posant des questions (de manière régulière), un peu de la même façon que lorsqu'on tâte le pouls.
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Using “prendre le pouls”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -L-E- -P-O-U-L-S — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pʁɑ̃dʁ lə pu\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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