pucelage
\pys.laʒ\
The verdict
“pucelage” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État d’une personne vierge, c’est-à-dire qui n’a jamais eu de rapports sexuels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pucelage · pucelage · French
pucelage · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pucelage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pys.laʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
pucelage is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pys.laʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
pucelage has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pucelage, spelled P-U-C-E-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1État d’une personne vierge, c’est-à-dire qui n’a jamais eu de rapports sexuels.
- 2Innocence ; inexpérience ; ignorance.
- 3Nom vernaculaire du coquillage nommé grain de café (Trivia monacha).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pucelage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour ravir un pucelage, il achète tout le monde, la duègne ou les parents.
Les hommes comme nous doivent rester libres. Je ne l’ai pas compris à temps, tant pis pour moi. Toi, tu as ton pucelage et ta liberté. Perds vite ton pucelage, mais garde toujours ta liberté.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.