punir
\py.niʁ\
The verdict
“punir” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,887. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,887
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Infliger une correction à quelqu’un.
Corpus desk
Index FR-punir · punir · French
punir · rank #7,887 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,887
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pubs
Nearest frequency peer: pubs (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « punir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- publicitaire
publicitaire
92,116 corpus weight
- pubs
pubs
92,115 corpus weight
- punir
punir
92,114 corpus weight
- Radar
Radar
92,113 corpus weight
- radicale
radicale
92,112 corpus weight
- rejoins
rejoins
92,111 corpus weight
What this shows « punir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | punir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \py.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #7,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « punir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around punir (IPA \py.niʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,887 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for punir, with forms such as "pnuir", "ppunir", and "puinr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pur", "punk", "punis", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is punir, spelled P-U-N-I-R.
Definition
- 1Infliger une correction à quelqu’un.
- 2Sanctionner une faute par une peine.
- 3Se dit aussi en parlant du crime, de la faute.
- 4Mal reconnaître ce qu’on a fait pour nous, rendre le mal pour le bien.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how punir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Punir un enfant pour une faute légère.
D’un coup d’œil scrutateur, le père l’examinait et le gars, craignant d’être fouillé, commençait à n’en pas mener large, une danse soignée ne manquant jamais de punir sans sursis tout vol domestique.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pnuir
- ppunir
- puinr
- punirr
- punnir
- punri
- upnir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of punir - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "punir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).