Pulvar
\pyl.vaʁ\
The verdict
“Pulvar” is uncommon French (frequency #65,436 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,436
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille
Corpus desk
Index FR-pulvar · Pulvar · French
Pulvar · rank #65,436 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,436
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH puisée
Nearest frequency peer: puisée (-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 « Pulvar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préférables
préférables
34,568 corpus weight
- préméditée
préméditée
34,567 corpus weight
- puisée
puisée
34,566 corpus weight
- Pulvar
Pulvar
34,565 corpus weight
- périra
périra
34,564 corpus weight
- pétrie
pétrie
34,563 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pulvar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pulvar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pyl.vaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pulvar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pulvar is uncommon French at frequency #65,436 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pyl.vaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Pulvar, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 Pulvar, spelled P-U-L-V-A-R.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pulvar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a énormément de repas à préparer dans ces arrondissements, assure Audrey Pulvar, chargée de l’alimentation durable à la Mairie de Paris.
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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