prunes

\pʁyn\

/\pʁyn\/ noun

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The verdict

“prunes” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,925. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#29,925
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de prune.

Corpus desk

Index FR-prunes · prunes · French

prunes · rank #29,925 · 9 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #29,925
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH promus

Nearest frequency peer: promus (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « prunes »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « prunes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

prunes vs pues
67% similar
prunes vs puces
67% similar
prunes vs punis
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for prunes
PropertyValue
Headwordprunes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pʁyn\
Letters6
Frequency rank#29,925
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « prunes »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).prunesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « promus » (#29,924), « préférerait » (#29,926), « privilégient » (#29,923). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « prunes » est au #29,925. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around prunes (IPA \pʁyn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,925 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de prune.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for prunes, with forms such as "pprunes", "prnues", and "prrunes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pues", "puces", "punis", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is prunes, spelled P-R-U-N-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de prune.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how prunes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les petits voleurs restaient, les uns debout, les autres accotés contre le lit ou la huche, tous morveux et sales, bien portants d’ailleurs, grugeant leurs prunes sans rien dire, mais regardant l’étranger d’un œil sournois et narquois.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pprunes
  • prnues
  • prrunes
  • pruens
  • pruness
  • prunnes
  • prunse
  • purnes
  • rpunes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of prunes - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

pprunes1prnues2prrunes1pruens2pruness1prunnes1prunse2purnes2
Edit distance from "prunes"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prunes"?
"prunes" is spelled P-R-U-N-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pʁyn\.
What does "prunes" mean?
As a noun, "prunes" means: Pluriel de prune.
What words are commonly confused with "prunes"?
"prunes" is commonly confused with "pues", "puces", "punis". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "prunes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prunes" is \pʁyn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prunes" come from?
"prunes" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "prunes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

promus#29,924priant#29,922poulpe#29,920pompon#29,916

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Puteaux9 variantspoussera9 variantsRamsay9 variantsrentra9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list