puits de lumière
\pɥi də ly.miɛʁ\
The verdict
“puits de lumière” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Gaine percée verticalement dans un bâtiment afin de donner de la lumière.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puits de lumière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɥi də ly.miɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “puits de lumière” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
puits de lumière is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɥi də ly.miɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Gaine percée verticalement dans un bâtiment afin de donner de la lumière.".
Zero misspellings are on record for puits de lumière in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is puits de lumière, spelled P-U-I-T-S- -D-E- -L-U-M-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Gaine percée verticalement dans un bâtiment afin de donner de la lumière.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “puits de lumière”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-U-I-T-S- -D-E- -L-U-M-I-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɥi də ly.miɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.