pubien
\py.bjɛ̃\
The verdict
“pubien” is uncommon French (frequency #85,171 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,171
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui appartient ou qui a rapport au pubis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pubien · pubien · French
pubien · rank #85,171 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,171
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PTC
Nearest frequency peer: PTC (-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 « pubien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prévoyants
prévoyants
14,833 corpus weight
- prônées
prônées
14,832 corpus weight
- PTC
PTC
14,831 corpus weight
- pubien
pubien
14,830 corpus weight
- pubères
pubères
14,829 corpus weight
- puno
puno
14,827 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pubien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pubien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \py.bjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pubien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pubien is uncommon French at frequency #85,171 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \py.bjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui appartient ou qui a rapport au pubis.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pubien in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pubien, spelled P-U-B-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Qui appartient ou qui a rapport au pubis.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pubien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Symphyse pubienne.
Ligaments pubiens.
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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