puîné
French, noun
puîné is spelled P-U-Î-N-É (5 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 82,784th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Puîné is a French masculine noun meaning “cadet (someone born after a sibling)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, puiné is a different word: “post-1990 spelling of puîné”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui est née immédiatement après l’un de ses frères ou l’une de ses sœurs”.
What does puîné mean in English?
adjective
- 1
cadet (born after a sibling)
- 2
Canadapuisne
noun
- 1
masculinecadet (someone born after a sibling)
adjective
- 1
post-1990 spelling of puîné
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est né après un de ses frères ou une de ses sœurs.
noun: 1. Né après un de ses frères ou une de ses sœurs.
adjective: 1. Qui est né immédiatement après un frère ou une sœur aîné(e).
noun: 1. Personne qui est née immédiatement après l’un de ses frères ou l’une de ses sœurs.
noun: 1. Arbrisseau considéré comme mort-bois.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of puîné
- puînée feminine
- puînés masculine plural
- puînées feminine plural
- puiné alternative
- puinée feminine
- puinés masculine plural
- puinées feminine plural
- puîné
- puines plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to puîné
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is puîné in French?
puîné appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).