puritain
\py.ʁi.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“puritain” is uncommon French (frequency #52,929 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,929
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui professe une grande pureté de principes moraux ou politiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puritain · puritain · French
puritain · rank #52,929 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,929
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH putréfaction
Nearest frequency peer: putréfaction (+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 « puritain »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- psautier
psautier
47,075 corpus weight
- psychology
psychology
47,074 corpus weight
- puritain
puritain
47,072 corpus weight
- putréfaction
putréfaction
47,071 corpus weight
- putschistes
putschistes
47,070 corpus weight
- péniches
péniches
47,069 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puritain » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puritain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \py.ʁi.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,929 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puritain » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puritain is uncommon French at frequency #52,929 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \py.ʁi.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
puritain doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is puritain, spelled P-U-R-I-T-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui professe une grande pureté de principes moraux ou politiques.
- 2Relatif au puritanisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how puritain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un ministre puritain. — Un esprit puritain.
Sa vie était monotone et sa tâche répugnait à son caractère, mais elle accomplissait son devoir et brisait sa volonté avec une joie puritaine.
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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