puisé
\pɥi.ze\
The verdict
“puisé” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,135. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,135
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Participe passé masculin singulier de puiser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puise · puisé · French
puisé · rank #32,135 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,135
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH prêtresse
Nearest frequency peer: prêtresse (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “puisé”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- préoccupant
préoccupant
67,869 corpus weight
- présenterait
présenterait
67,868 corpus weight
- prêtresse
prêtresse
67,867 corpus weight
- puisé
puisé
67,866 corpus weight
- punta
punta
67,865 corpus weight
- pâtés
pâtés
67,864 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “puisé” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puisé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɥi.ze\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #32,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “puisé” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around puisé (IPA \pɥi.ze\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,135 among 248,534 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé masculin singulier de puiser.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for puisé, with forms such as "piusé", "ppuisé", and "puissé". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pus", "pure", "pute", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 puisé, spelled P-U-I-S-É.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin singulier de puiser.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- piusé
- ppuisé
- puissé
- puiés
- pusié
- upisé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puisé - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "puisé", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.