puente
\puen.te\
The verdict
“puente” is uncommon French (frequency #84,203 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,203
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pont.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puente · puente · French
puente · rank #84,203 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,203
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH psychopathie
Nearest frequency peer: psychopathie (-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 « puente »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- présumant
présumant
15,801 corpus weight
- prévenante
prévenante
15,800 corpus weight
- psychopathie
psychopathie
15,799 corpus weight
- puente
puente
15,798 corpus weight
- puez
puez
15,797 corpus weight
- Péruwelz
Péruwelz
15,796 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puente » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \puen.te\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puente » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puente is uncommon French at frequency #84,203 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \puen.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for puente in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is puente, spelled P-U-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Pont.
- 2Pont du navire.
- 3Pont, jour ouvré entre des jours fériés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how puente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
puente colgante.
puente levadizo.
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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