puisant

\pɥi.zɑ̃\

/\pɥi.zɑ̃\/ verb

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The verdict

“puisant” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,660. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,660
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de puiser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-puisant · puisant · French

puisant · rank #35,660 · 9 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,660
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH psychédélique

Nearest frequency peer: psychédélique (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « puisant »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « puisant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

puisant vs puisent
86% similar
puisant vs puissant
88% similar
puisant vs puissent
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for puisant
PropertyValue
Headwordpuisant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pɥi.zɑ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#35,660
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « puisant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.puisantse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « psychédélique » (#35,659), « pullulent » (#35,661), « présidait » (#35,658). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « puisant » est au #35,660. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around puisant (IPA \pɥi.zɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #35,660 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de puiser.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for puisant, with forms such as "piusant", "ppuisant", and "puiasnt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "puisent", "puissant", "puissent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is puisant, spelled P-U-I-S-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe présent de puiser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how puisant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En refusant d’être «typique», en sachant désappartenir aux couleurs locales et toutefois en y puisant force et sève, l’artiste figuratif du monde musulman peut déjouer cette ghettoïsation.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • piusant
  • ppuisant
  • puiasnt
  • puisannt
  • puisantt
  • puisatn
  • puisnat
  • pusiant
  • upisant

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puisant - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

piusant2ppuisant1puiasnt2puisannt1puisantt1puisatn2puisnat2pusiant2
Edit distance from "puisant"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "puisant"?
"puisant" is spelled P-U-I-S-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pɥi.zɑ̃\.
What does "puisant" mean?
As a verb, "puisant" means: Participe présent de puiser.
What words are commonly confused with "puisant"?
"puisant" is commonly confused with "puisent", "puissant", "puissent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "puisant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "puisant" is \pɥi.zɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "puisant" come from?
"puisant" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "puisant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list