puit
\pɥi\
The verdict
“puit” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,476. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,476
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de puits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puit · puit · French
puit · rank #41,476 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,476
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH publishing
Nearest frequency peer: publishing (-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 « puit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- psychisme
psychisme
58,528 corpus weight
- psychothéra…
psychothérapeute
58,527 corpus weight
- publishing
publishing
58,526 corpus weight
- puit
puit
58,525 corpus weight
- pénitents
pénitents
58,524 corpus weight
- périph
périph
58,523 corpus weight
What this shows « puit » 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 | puit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɥi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #41,476 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « puit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around puit (IPA \pɥi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,476 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante orthographique de puits.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for puit, with forms such as "piut", "ppuit", and "puitt". 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, "pur", "puy", "pus", 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 puit, spelled P-U-I-T.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de puits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how puit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le propriétaire doit penser à creuser un puit perpendiculaire à sa mine, pour renouveller l’air, car quand le vent est à l’ouest, la vapeur est repoussee dans l’intérieur et rend l’air suffocant pour les ouvriers ; si ce puit était fait, elle trouverait une issue et ne les incommoderait pas.
J’ai publié à ce propos l’observation d’une jeune fille de quinze ans qui, après une chute dans un puit, a présentée pendant plusieurs mois une paralysie totale des muscles du tronc. Si on la mettait assise, le corps tombait indéfiniment d’un côté ou de l’autre, sans qu’elle pût aucunement se soutenir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- piut
- ppuit
- puitt
- puti
- upit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puit - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).