puériles
\pɥe.ʁil\
The verdict
“puériles” is uncommon French (frequency #71,835 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,835
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de puéril.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pueriles · puériles · French
puériles · rank #71,835 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,835
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH putt
Nearest frequency peer: putt (-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 « puériles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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28,169 corpus weight
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28,168 corpus weight
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putt
28,167 corpus weight
- puériles
puériles
28,166 corpus weight
- périphrase
périphrase
28,165 corpus weight
- quantième
quantième
28,162 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puériles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puériles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɥe.ʁil\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #71,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puériles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puériles is uncommon French at frequency #71,835 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɥe.ʁil\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de puéril.".
puériles doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is puériles, spelled P-U-É-R-I-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de puéril.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how puériles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je sens les chaînes des passions se désappesantir, les vues de l’éternité devenir plus consolantes de jour en jour, et les petites tracasseries de la vie humaine me paraissent tous les jours plus puériles.
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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