punissait
\py.ni.sɛ\
The verdict
“punissait” is uncommon French (frequency #80,554 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,554
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de punir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-punissait · punissait · French
punissait · rank #80,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,554
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pucci
Nearest frequency peer: Pucci (-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 « punissait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- psychosocial
psychosocial
19,450 corpus weight
- Pucci
Pucci
19,448 corpus weight
- punissait
punissait
19,447 corpus weight
- purifiés
purifiés
19,446 corpus weight
- puterie
puterie
19,445 corpus weight
- pétrochimiq…
pétrochimiques
19,444 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « punissait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | punissait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \py.ni.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « punissait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
punissait is uncommon French at frequency #80,554 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \py.ni.sɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait de punir.".
punissait doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is punissait, spelled P-U-N-I-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait 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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