puja
\pu.dʒa\
The verdict
“puja” is uncommon French (frequency #97,320 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,320
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans l’hindouisme, adoration d’une image sacrée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puja · puja · French
puja · rank #97,320 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,320
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH purgent
Nearest frequency peer: purgent (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « puja »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- précédèrent
précédèrent
2,686 corpus weight
- prétendais
prétendais
2,684 corpus weight
- puja
puja
2,681 corpus weight
- purgent
purgent
2,680 corpus weight
- puro
puro
2,679 corpus weight
- puéricultri…
puéricultrice
2,678 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puja » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puja |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.dʒa\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puja » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puja is uncommon French at frequency #97,320 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pu.dʒa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dans l’hindouisme, adoration d’une image sacrée.".
Zero misspellings are on record for puja in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is puja, spelled P-U-J-A.
Definition
- 1Dans l’hindouisme, adoration d’une image sacrée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how puja appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand on arrive au pied d’un sommet himalayen, la première chose à faire est de célébrer une puja pour demander pardon au dieu de la montagne dont on foule les flancs en montant, et lui faire des offrandes – du riz, de la farine, des fruits et de la bière – pour invoquer sa bénédiction.
Elle demanderait aujourd’hui si elle pouvait rentrer chez elle pour la puja que sa mère avait prévu d’organiser pour la naissance du premier fils de son frère.
This word in other languages
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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