punchlines

\pœnʃ.lajn\

/\pœnʃ.lajn\/ noun

The verdict

“punchlines” is uncommon French (frequency #50,452 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#50,452
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de punchline.

Corpus desk

Index FR-punchlines · punchlines · French

punchlines · rank #50,452 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #50,452
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH Publicis

Nearest frequency peer: Publicis (-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 « punchlines »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « punchlines » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for punchlines
PropertyValue
Headwordpunchlines
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pœnʃ.lajn\
Letters10
Frequency rank#50,452
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « punchlines » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).punchlinestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Publicis » (#50,451), « pénalisant » (#50,453), « péroné » (#50,454). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « punchlines » est au #50,452. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

punchlines is uncommon French at frequency #50,452 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pœnʃ.lajn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de punchline.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for punchlines, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is punchlines, spelled P-U-N-C-H-L-I-N-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de punchline.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how punchlines appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il reprend aussi les plus célèbres punchlines « du Président des riches ».

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "punchlines"?
"punchlines" is spelled P-U-N-C-H-L-I-N-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pœnʃ.lajn\.
What does "punchlines" mean?
As a noun, "punchlines" means: Pluriel de punchline.
How do you pronounce "punchlines"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "punchlines" is \pœnʃ.lajn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "punchlines" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "punchlines", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list