puants
\pɥɑ̃\
The verdict
“puants” is uncommon French (frequency #59,560 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,560
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de puant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puants · puants · French
puants · rank #59,560 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,560
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PSC
Nearest frequency peer: PSC (-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 « puants »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prévoie
prévoie
40,444 corpus weight
- prêchant
prêchant
40,443 corpus weight
- PSC
PSC
40,442 corpus weight
- puants
puants
40,441 corpus weight
- punching
punching
40,440 corpus weight
- pyrénéenne
pyrénéenne
40,439 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puants » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɥɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puants » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puants is uncommon French at frequency #59,560 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɥɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de puant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for puants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is puants, spelled P-U-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin 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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