puh
"puh" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“puh” is an uncommon English word, ranked #85,675 in English word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #85,675
- frequency rank, English
- 3
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative form of pooh.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puh |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #85,675 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “puh” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for puh is 3 letters long, classified as an interjection. Corpus data places it at rank #85,675 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Alternative form of pooh.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for puh, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is puh, spelled P-U-H.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of pooh.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “puh”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-U-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.