pua
noun
pua is spelled P-U-A: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,063rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pua means “A type of fried sweet cake made of flour and sugar/jaggery popular in Northern India” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pua is puas.
How many letters and syllables are in pua?
| Letters | 3: P-U-A |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 58,063rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is pua?
Pua appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,063rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
What rhymes with pua?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as pua.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: pau.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of pua
- puas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pua mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A type of fried sweet cake made of flour and sugar/jaggery popular in Northern India.
- 2
A scraper or stick used to play a guiro.
noun
- 1
Initialism of pickup artist.
- 2
Initialism of potentially unwanted application.
- 3
Initialism of Private Use Area (the ranges of Unicode code points reserved for private use).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does pua come from?
Borrowed from Hindi पुआ (puā).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).