punisse
\py.nis\
The verdict
“punisse” is uncommon French (frequency #61,067 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,067
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de punir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-punisse · punisse · French
punisse · rank #61,067 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,067
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pugilat
Nearest frequency peer: pugilat (-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 « punisse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pudiquement
pudiquement
38,937 corpus weight
- Puebla
Puebla
38,936 corpus weight
- pugilat
pugilat
38,935 corpus weight
- punisse
punisse
38,934 corpus weight
- punitives
punitives
38,933 corpus weight
- pâleur
pâleur
38,932 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « punisse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | punisse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \py.nis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,067 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « punisse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
punisse is uncommon French at frequency #61,067 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \py.nis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for punisse, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is punisse, spelled P-U-N-I-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de punir.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de punir.
- 3Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif 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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