pubère
\py.bɛʁ\
The verdict
“pubère” is uncommon French (frequency #69,335 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,335
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a atteint l’âge de puberté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pubere · pubère · French
pubère · rank #69,335 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,335
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pst
Nearest frequency peer: pst (-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 « pubère »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prétendante
prétendante
30,669 corpus weight
- prêtresses
prêtresses
30,668 corpus weight
- pst
pst
30,667 corpus weight
- pubère
pubère
30,666 corpus weight
- puerta
puerta
30,665 corpus weight
- pustules
pustules
30,664 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pubère » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pubère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \py.bɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,335 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pubère » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pubère is uncommon French at frequency #69,335 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \py.bɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for pubère in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pubère, spelled P-U-B-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a atteint l’âge de puberté.
- 2Qui a atteint l’âge auquel la loi permet de se marier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pubère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous ce climat, les garçons et les filles sont pubères beaucoup plus tôt que dans nos contrées.
Suivant la loi romaine, un garçon était pubère à quatorze ans, et une fille à douze ans.
This word in other languages
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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