pull

\pyl\

/\pyl\/ noun

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The verdict

“pull” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,135) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#8,135
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pull-over.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pull · pull · French

pull · rank #8,135 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,135
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH préférés

Nearest frequency peer: préférés (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « pull »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « pull » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pull vs pur
50% similar
pull vs puy
50% similar
pull vs pus
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pull
PropertyValue
Headwordpull
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pyl\
Letters4
Frequency rank#8,135
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « pull »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).pullse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « préférés » (#8,134), « planification » (#8,133), « quotidiennement » (#8,137). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pull » est au #8,135. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for pull is neighbouring look-alikes ("pur", "puy", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pyl\. Frequency #8,135 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Pull-over.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for pull, with forms such as "plul", "ppull", and "pul". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pur", "puy", "pus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pull, spelled P-U-L-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pull-over.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pull appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. – Mais qu’est-ce qu’ils ont tous avec leurs pulls noués autour du cou ! De deux choses l’une. Ou bien il fait froid et on enfile le pull, ou bien il fait chaud et on le laisse à la maison. Le pull autour du cou trahit la lâcheté, l’incapacité de prendre une décision, la peur des courants d’air, l’imprévoyance et la veulerie, l’exhibitionnisme du shetland…
  2. Cian avait retiré son pull et déplaçait des caisses habillé d’un simple chandail à manches courtes blanc.

Synonyms

pull-over

This word in other languages

suéter(Español)Pulli(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • plul
  • ppull
  • pul
  • upll

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pull - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

plul2ppull1pul1upll2
Edit distance from "pull"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pull"?
"pull" is spelled P-U-L-L. The IPA pronunciation is \pyl\.
What does "pull" mean?
As a noun, "pull" means: Pull-over.
What words are commonly confused with "pull"?
"pull" is commonly confused with "pur", "puy", "pus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pull"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pull" is \pyl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pull" come from?
"pull" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pull", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

raid#8,139Marx#8,126Mans#8,125loge#8,120

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list