puceron
\pys.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“puceron” is uncommon French (frequency #75,121 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,121
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce d’insecte dont la larve s’attache aux feuilles et aux rameaux des plantes et qui en suce la sève.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puceron · puceron · French
puceron · rank #75,121 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,121
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH publiaient
Nearest frequency peer: publiaient (-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 « puceron »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prétendantes
prétendantes
24,883 corpus weight
- prévenance
prévenance
24,882 corpus weight
- publiaient
publiaient
24,881 corpus weight
- puceron
puceron
24,880 corpus weight
- pullule
pullule
24,879 corpus weight
- pyramid
pyramid
24,877 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puceron » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puceron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pys.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #75,121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puceron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puceron is uncommon French at frequency #75,121 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pys.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
puceron doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is puceron, spelled P-U-C-E-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Espèce d’insecte dont la larve s’attache aux feuilles et aux rameaux des plantes et qui en suce la sève.
- 2Cette larve elle-même.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how puceron appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour d’autres, nous comptons au moins une génération de mâles, espèces dites « holocycliques », comme chez le puceron noir de la fève.
Ce sont les larves des pucerons qui, réunies en familles innombrables, recouvrent quelquefois des branches entières de nos arbres fruitiers, la tige de nos fleurs, de nos légumes.
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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