pun
\pʌn\
The verdict
“pun” is uncommon French (frequency #67,034 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,034
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Calembour, jeu de mots.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pun · pun · French
pun · rank #67,034 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,034
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Puigdemont
Nearest frequency peer: Puigdemont (-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 « pun »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- psst
psst
32,971 corpus weight
- psychotrope
psychotrope
32,970 corpus weight
- Puigdemont
Puigdemont
32,968 corpus weight
- pun
pun
32,967 corpus weight
- punissent
punissent
32,966 corpus weight
- purgée
purgée
32,965 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pun » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pʌn\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #67,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pun » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pun is uncommon French at frequency #67,034 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pʌn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Calembour, jeu de mots.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pun, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 pun, spelled P-U-N.
Definition
- 1Calembour, jeu de mots.
Synonyms
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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