puniques
\py.nik\
The verdict
“puniques” is uncommon French (frequency #70,976 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,976
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de punique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puniques · puniques · French
puniques · rank #70,976 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,976
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pulvérisée
Nearest frequency peer: pulvérisée (-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 « puniques »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- provincia
provincia
29,029 corpus weight
- prépayée
prépayée
29,028 corpus weight
- préposée
préposée
29,027 corpus weight
- pulvérisée
pulvérisée
29,026 corpus weight
- puniques
puniques
29,025 corpus weight
- pyromanes
pyromanes
29,022 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puniques » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puniques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \py.nik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #70,976 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puniques » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puniques is uncommon French at frequency #70,976 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \py.nik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de punique.".
No misspelling variants are generated for puniques in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is puniques, spelled P-U-N-I-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de punique.
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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