puppet
\ˈpʊpət\
The verdict
“puppet” is uncommon French (frequency #70,135 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,135
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif I de puppen.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puppet · puppet · French
puppet · rank #70,135 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,135
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pyrite
Nearest frequency peer: pyrite (+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 « puppet »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préférentie…
préférentielles
29,870 corpus weight
- prépayées
prépayées
29,869 corpus weight
- puppet
puppet
29,866 corpus weight
- pyrite
pyrite
29,865 corpus weight
- pyrotechnie
pyrotechnie
29,864 corpus weight
- pâteuse
pâteuse
29,863 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puppet » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puppet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈpʊpət\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puppet » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puppet is uncommon French at frequency #70,135 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈpʊpət\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif I de puppen.".
Zero misspellings are on record for puppet in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is puppet, spelled P-U-P-P-E-T.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif I de puppen.
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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