pug
\pœɡ\
The verdict
“pug” is uncommon French (frequency #76,926 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,926
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonyme de carlin (race de chien).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pug · pug · French
pug · rank #76,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,926
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH puisées
Nearest frequency peer: puisées (+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 « pug »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préétabli
préétabli
23,078 corpus weight
- psychothéra…
psychothérapies
23,077 corpus weight
- pug
pug
23,075 corpus weight
- puisées
puisées
23,074 corpus weight
- PZ
PZ
23,073 corpus weight
- pécan
pécan
23,072 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pug » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pug |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pœɡ\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #76,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pug » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pug is uncommon French at frequency #76,926 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pœɡ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonyme de carlin (race de chien).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pug, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 pug, spelled P-U-G.
Definition
- 1Synonyme de carlin (race de chien).
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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