puait

\pɥɛ\

/\pɥɛ\/ verb

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The verdict

“puait” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,941. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#40,941
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de puer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-puait · puait · French

puait · rank #40,941 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #40,941
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH PTT

Nearest frequency peer: PTT (-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 « puait »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « puait » 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).

puait vs pût
40% similar
puait vs puis
60% similar
puait vs puni
60% similar

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

Key facts for puait
PropertyValue
Headwordpuait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pɥɛ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#40,941
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « puait »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « PTT » (#40,940), « pulvérisation » (#40,942), « préfète » (#40,939). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « puait » est au #40,941. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around puait (IPA \pɥɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #40,941 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de puer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for puait, with forms such as "pauit", "ppuait", and "puaitt". 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, "pût", "puis", "puni", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is puait, spelled P-U-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de puer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Ça puait la nécrose à plein nez et dans ce flot ininterrompu de charogne, les bras des uns se cuissaient avec les épaules des autres, organes agrippés en étreinte éternelle.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • pauit
  • ppuait
  • puaitt
  • puati
  • puiat
  • upait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puait - 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.

pauit2ppuait1puaitt1puati2puiat2upait2
Edit distance from "puait"

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 "puait"?
"puait" is spelled P-U-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pɥɛ\.
What does "puait" mean?
As a verb, "puait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de puer.
What words are commonly confused with "puait"?
"puait" is commonly confused with "pût", "puis", "puni". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "puait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "puait" is \pɥɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "puait" come from?
"puait" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pétri#40,945pesto#40,918ricin#40,967rocca#40,973

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

Ruhr6 variantsovins6 variantsnach6 variantsserrez6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list