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puella

noun

puella is a noun meaning “Ellipsis of puella aeterna” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-U-E-L-L-A, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of puella is puellas.

What does puella mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Ellipsis of puella aeterna.

  2. 2

    rareA young girl.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of puella

  • puellas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is puella?

Puella appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th 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).

Where does puella come from?

Borrowed from Latin puella.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).