puri
\py.ʁi\
The verdict
“puri” is uncommon French (frequency #95,203 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,203
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pain azyme couramment consommé en Inde, au Bangladesh, au Pakistan et dans d'autres pays du sous-continent indien comme le Sri Lanka.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puri · puri · French
puri · rank #95,203 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,203
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Puiseux
Nearest frequency peer: Puiseux (-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 « puri »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- psychomoteur
psychomoteur
4,801 corpus weight
- Puiseux
Puiseux
4,799 corpus weight
- puri
puri
4,798 corpus weight
- pythagorici…
pythagoriciens
4,797 corpus weight
- pâtres
pâtres
4,796 corpus weight
- pénétraient
pénétraient
4,795 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puri » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puri |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \py.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #95,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puri » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puri is uncommon French at frequency #95,203 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \py.ʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pain azyme couramment consommé en Inde, au Bangladesh, au Pakistan et dans d'autres pays du sous-continent indien comme le Sri Lanka.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for puri, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is puri, spelled P-U-R-I.
Definition
- 1Pain azyme couramment consommé en Inde, au Bangladesh, au Pakistan et dans d'autres pays du sous-continent indien comme le Sri Lanka.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how puri appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Celles qu’il fallait sans cesse contenter, c’étaient Choti et Munni, les défuntes épouses de son oncle maternel. Elles apparaissaient régulièrement dans les rêves de sa femme, en général les nuits de pleine lune, pour réclamer une chose ou une autre. Leur époux était toujours en vie, et à presque cent ans il mangeait chaque jour vingt-six puri frits dans…
This word in other languages
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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