puberté
\py.bɛʁ.te\
The verdict
“puberté” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #20,250. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #20,250
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État des filles et des garçons qui sont en âge d’avoir une relation sexuelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puberte · puberté · French
puberté · rank #20,250 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,250
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH présentaient
Nearest frequency peer: présentaient (-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 « puberté »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- privation
privation
79,754 corpus weight
- prouvant
prouvant
79,753 corpus weight
- présentaient
présentaient
79,752 corpus weight
- puberté
puberté
79,751 corpus weight
- punie
punie
79,750 corpus weight
- quadruple
quadruple
79,749 corpus weight
What this shows « puberté » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puberté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \py.bɛʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « puberté »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around puberté (IPA \py.bɛʁ.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #20,250 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for puberté, with forms such as "pbuerté", "ppuberté", and "pubberté". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pureté", "puerto", "perte", 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 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 puberté, spelled P-U-B-E-R-T-É.
Definition
- 1État des filles et des garçons qui sont en âge d’avoir une relation sexuelle.
- 2État de la nature qui s'éveille au printemps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how puberté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jeune bourgeois, au grand déplaisir de ses père et autres parents plus ou moins naturels, doit aujourd’hui dépenser de l’argent pour tuer le temps qui s’écoule entre la puberté et le mariage.
Victor. — J’ai montré ça au médecin qui a quitté l’hôtel ce matin, il m’a dit : "Mon petit, c’est la puberté." Armandine, assise sur le canapé. — La puberté ! Qu’est-ce que c’est que ça, la puberté ? Victor. — Je ne sais pas ! Mais il paraît que j’ai l’âge d’aimer… Ah ! je m’en apercevais bien que c’est la sève qui me travaille.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pbuerté
- ppuberté
- pubberté
- puberrté
- puberte
- pubertté
- puberét
- pubetré
- pubreté
- puebrté
- upberté
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puberté - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "puberté", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).