punissent
\py.nis\
The verdict
“punissent” is uncommon French (frequency #67,035 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,035
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de punir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-punissent · punissent · French
punissent · rank #67,035 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,035
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pun
Nearest frequency peer: pun (-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 « punissent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- psychotrope
psychotrope
32,970 corpus weight
- Puigdemont
Puigdemont
32,968 corpus weight
- pun
pun
32,967 corpus weight
- punissent
punissent
32,966 corpus weight
- purgée
purgée
32,965 corpus weight
- pélagie
pélagie
32,963 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « punissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | punissent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \py.nis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,035 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « punissent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
punissent is uncommon French at frequency #67,035 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 punissent, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is punissent, spelled P-U-N-I-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de punir.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait de punir.
- 3Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent 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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