pui
The verdict
“pui” is uncommon French (frequency #55,533 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,533
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hauteur, sommet, montagne, colline.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pui · pui · French
pui · rank #55,533 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,533
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pueblo
Nearest frequency peer: pueblo (-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 « pui »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prépositions
prépositions
44,471 corpus weight
- prévente
prévente
44,470 corpus weight
- pueblo
pueblo
44,469 corpus weight
- pui
pui
44,468 corpus weight
- Puisaye
Puisaye
44,467 corpus weight
- pyrénéen
pyrénéen
44,466 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pui » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pui |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #55,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pui » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pui is uncommon French at frequency #55,533 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
pui has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pui, spelled P-U-I.
Definition
- 1Hauteur, sommet, montagne, colline.
- 2Piédestal.
- 3Éloge, honneur.
- 4Société littéraire qui décernait un prix de poésie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pui appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les montagnes sunt hautes et li pui sunt agu.
Mettre en pui, élever en honneur, mettre sur un piédestal.
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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