puisses

/\pɥis\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#14,337

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

puisses is aFrenchverb. It means: Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de pouvoir. Pronounced \pɥis\. Often confused with puissiez and puristes.

Key facts for puisses
PropertyValue
Headwordpuisses
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pɥis\
Letters7
Frequency rank#14,337
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of puisses in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for puisses is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɥis\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,337 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de pouvoir.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for puisses, with forms such as "piusses", "ppuisses", and "puisess". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "puissiez", "puristes", "Pisse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is puisses, spelled P-U-I-S-S-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de pouvoir.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: piusses,ppuisses,puisess,puissess,puissse,pusises,upisses

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for puisses

Misspelling Variants of "puisses"

piusses7ppuisses8puisess7puissess8puissse7pusises7upisses7
Misspelling Variants of "puisses"

Frequency rank: #14,337 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "puisses"?
"puisses" is spelled P-U-I-S-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pɥis\.
What does "puisses" mean?
As a verb, "puisses" means: Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de pouvoir.
What words are commonly confused with "puisses"?
"puisses" is commonly confused with "puissiez", "puristes", "Pisse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "puisses"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "puisses" is \pɥis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "puisses" come from?
"puisses" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.