puisait
\pɥi.zɛ\
The verdict
“puisait” is uncommon French (frequency #93,130 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,130
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de puiser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puisait · puisait · French
puisait · rank #93,130 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,130
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Punjabi
Nearest frequency peer: Punjabi (+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 « puisait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- PSR
PSR
6,874 corpus weight
- ptolémaïque
ptolémaïque
6,873 corpus weight
- puisait
puisait
6,871 corpus weight
- Punjabi
Punjabi
6,870 corpus weight
- PVV
PVV
6,869 corpus weight
- pénétrantes
pénétrantes
6,868 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puisait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puisait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɥi.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #93,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puisait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puisait is uncommon French at frequency #93,130 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɥi.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de puiser.".
Zero misspellings are on record for puisait in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is puisait, spelled P-U-I-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de puiser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how puisait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La coupe où il puisait était sans fond, disait-on : c’était l’œil de mer, gouffre insondable, communiquant avec les régions infernales et les abîmes de l’océan.
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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