pumas
\py.ma\
The verdict
“pumas” is uncommon French (frequency #56,199 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,199
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de puma.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pumas · pumas · French
pumas · rank #56,199 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,199
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Puech
Nearest frequency peer: Puech (-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 « pumas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préconisant
préconisant
43,805 corpus weight
- préférerai
préférerai
43,804 corpus weight
- Puech
Puech
43,803 corpus weight
- pumas
pumas
43,802 corpus weight
- purifiée
purifiée
43,801 corpus weight
- quiches
quiches
43,800 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pumas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pumas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \py.ma\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #56,199 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pumas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pumas is uncommon French at frequency #56,199 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \py.ma\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de puma.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pumas, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pumas, spelled P-U-M-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de puma.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pumas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pumas sont de redoutables prédateurs, très puissants, rapides, musclés et agiles.
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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