pune
\ˈpu.ne\
The verdict
“pune” is uncommon French (frequency #83,284 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,284
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de punir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pune · pune · French
pune · rank #83,284 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,284
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH PTR
Nearest frequency peer: PTR (-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 « pune »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prédisposés
prédisposés
16,721 corpus weight
- préfigurant
préfigurant
16,720 corpus weight
- PTR
PTR
16,718 corpus weight
- pune
pune
16,717 corpus weight
- punitifs
punitifs
16,716 corpus weight
- pura
pura
16,715 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pune » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈpu.ne\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,284 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pune » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pune is uncommon French at frequency #83,284 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈpu.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
pune has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pune, spelled P-U-N-E.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de punir.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier (tú) de l’impératif de de punir.
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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