# pur vs puts

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### pur
*noun · frequency rank #34,243*
Dated form of purr (“low murmuring sound as of a cat”).

### puts
*verb · IPA /pʊts/ · frequency rank #2,852*
third-person singular simple present indicative of put

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pur-vs-puts