Puech
The verdict
“Puech” is uncommon French (frequency #56,198 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,198
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français d’origine occitane.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puech · Puech · French
Puech · rank #56,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,198
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préférerai
Nearest frequency peer: préférerai (-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 « Puech »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- propageant
propageant
43,806 corpus weight
- préconisant
préconisant
43,805 corpus weight
- préférerai
préférerai
43,804 corpus weight
- Puech
Puech
43,803 corpus weight
- pumas
pumas
43,802 corpus weight
- purifiée
purifiée
43,801 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Puech » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Puech |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Puech » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Puech is uncommon French at frequency #56,198 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français d’origine occitane.".
Puech doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 Puech, spelled P-U-E-C-H.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français d’origine occitane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Puech appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour le reste, la Section comptera sur ses habituels tauliers (Rey, Ducat, Whitelock, Hewat, Puech, Maddocks…) afin de viser un exploit dont il était passé à deux doigts en décembre dernier (26-22).
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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