puits
French, noun/pɥi/
puits is spelled P-U-I-T-S (5 letters) and appears 14 times per million words in written French, the 5,230th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Puits is a French masculine noun meaning “well, shaft” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Trou qui s’enfonce dans le sol pour tirer de l’eau, du pétrole, du gaz naturel, ou tout autre fluide qui se…”.
What does puits mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinewell, shaft
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Trou qui s’enfonce dans le sol pour tirer de l’eau, du pétrole, du gaz naturel, ou tout autre fluide qui se trouve en profondeur. 2. Tunnel vertical pour l’extraction de substances ou matériaux qui sont enfouies dans la terre. 3. Passage vertical dans une grotte. 4. Endroit caché, secret.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of puits
- puit
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce puits?
- /pɥi/
- Belgium /pwi/
- \pɥi\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to puits
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is puits in French?
puits appears 14 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).