puma
\py.ma\
The verdict
“puma” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,637. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,637
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Félin carnassier d’Amérique, de taille moyenne, à pelage fauve à beige et sans crinière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puma · puma · French
puma · rank #19,637 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,637
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH psychiques
Nearest frequency peer: psychiques (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « puma »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- provisoires
provisoires
80,367 corpus weight
- prélevé
prélevé
80,366 corpus weight
- psychiques
psychiques
80,365 corpus weight
- puma
puma
80,364 corpus weight
- péquiste
péquiste
80,363 corpus weight
- pétanque
pétanque
80,362 corpus weight
What this shows « puma » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puma |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \py.ma\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,637 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « puma »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around puma (IPA \py.ma\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,637 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for puma, with forms such as "pmua", "ppuma", and "puam". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is puma, spelled P-U-M-A.
Definition
- 1Félin carnassier d’Amérique, de taille moyenne, à pelage fauve à beige et sans crinière.
- 2Emblème de l’équipe nationale de rugby d’Argentine.
- 3Membre de cette équipe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how puma appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un puma qui s’est échappé d’un cirque au printemps dernier.
Les bébés pumas ont des points noirs ou marron et des anneaux autour des oreilles.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pmua
- ppuma
- puam
- pumma
- upma
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of puma - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "puma", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).