puisent
\pɥiz\
The verdict
“puisent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,119. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #44,119
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de puiser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puisent · puisent · French
puisent · rank #44,119 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,119
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH publiez
Nearest frequency peer: publiez (-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 « puisent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prêtrise
prêtrise
55,885 corpus weight
- puanteur
puanteur
55,884 corpus weight
- publiez
publiez
55,883 corpus weight
- puisent
puisent
55,882 corpus weight
- pyromane
pyromane
55,881 corpus weight
- péjorative
péjorative
55,880 corpus weight
What this shows « puisent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | puisent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɥiz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #44,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « puisent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around puisent (IPA \pɥiz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #44,119 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for puisent, with forms such as "piusent", "ppuisent", and "puiesnt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "puiser", "purent", "puissant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is puisent, spelled P-U-I-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de puiser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de puiser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how puisent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les sources où les faits-diversiers puisent une partie de leurs informations sont, à Paris, la Préfecture de police et la Sûreté, où sont centralisés les rapports reçus des différents quartiers ; en province, les secrétariats de mairie, les commissariats et les gendarmeries.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- piusent
- ppuisent
- puiesnt
- puisennt
- puisentt
- puisetn
- puisnet
- pusient
- upisent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puisent - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "puisent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).