puantes
\pɥɑ̃t\
The verdict
“puantes” is uncommon French (frequency #58,187 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,187
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de puant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puantes · puantes · French
puantes · rank #58,187 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,187
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH psychodrame
Nearest frequency peer: psychodrame (-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 « puantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prélèvent
prélèvent
41,817 corpus weight
- prévalant
prévalant
41,816 corpus weight
- psychodrame
psychodrame
41,815 corpus weight
- puantes
puantes
41,814 corpus weight
- punto
punto
41,813 corpus weight
- pupitres
pupitres
41,812 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɥɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puantes is uncommon French at frequency #58,187 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɥɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de puant.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for puantes, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 puantes, spelled P-U-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de puant.
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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