peuh
\pø\
The verdict
“peuh” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sert à marquer le mépris.
Corpus desk
Index FR-peuh · peuh · French
peuh · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peuh |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \pø\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « peuh » en français
Rare enough to double-check
peuh is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection, transcribed \pø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for peuh, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is peuh, spelled P-E-U-H.
Definition
- 1Sert à marquer le mépris.
- 2Sert à imiter quelqu'un qui tousse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how peuh appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Tu es fâché aussi contre moi ? interrogea la fille, se dressant tout anxieuse. — Peuh !…
« Et alors, Charcot, demandait mon père, comment l’avez-vous traité ce malheureux ? » Le geste des doigts fuselés indiquait que la question était futile : « Peuh… je lui ai conseillé les femmes, si c’était encore possible… Mais vous savez, un Allemand… à cinquante-cinq ans… et le pays de Winckelmann… »
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.