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pull

French, noun/pyl/

pull is spelled P-U-L-L (4 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written French, the 8,090th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pull is a French masculine noun meaning “pullover” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pull-over”.

What does pull mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepullover

    Il fait froid; je vais mettre mon pull.

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Pull-over.

interjection: 1. Se dit pour signaler l’envoi d’une cible à celui qui doit la shooter.

verb: 1. Récupérer un ou plusieurs fichiers depuis un logiciel de gestion de versions. 2. Attirer un ou plusieurs monstres dans une embuscade. – (site go-on.forumactif.com, 2 juin 2017)

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 pull

  • pulls plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce pull?

  • /pyl/
  • /pul/
  • \pyl\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to pull

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is pull in French?

pull appears 7.8 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).

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