pouding
\pu.diŋɡ\
The verdict
“pouding” is uncommon French (frequency #90,053 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,053
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de pudding.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pouding · pouding · French
pouding · rank #90,053 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,053
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH potences
Nearest frequency peer: potences (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pouding »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- postcolonia…
postcoloniale
9,951 corpus weight
- postera
postera
9,950 corpus weight
- potences
potences
9,949 corpus weight
- pouding
pouding
9,948 corpus weight
- pourvois
pourvois
9,947 corpus weight
- prenable
prenable
9,945 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pouding » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pouding |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.diŋɡ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pouding » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pouding is uncommon French at frequency #90,053 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pu.diŋɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de pudding.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pouding, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pouding, spelled P-O-U-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de pudding.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pouding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mélanger les ingrédients de la salsa dans un bol et répartir sur le pouding.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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