puritaine

\py.ʁi.tɛn\

/\py.ʁi.tɛn\/ noun

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The verdict

“puritaine” is uncommon French (frequency #58,190 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#58,190
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre d’une secte protestante qui veut suivre la religion la plus pure.

Corpus desk

Index FR-puritaine · puritaine · French

puritaine · rank #58,190 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #58,190
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pupitres

Nearest frequency peer: pupitres (-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 « puritaine »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puritaine » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for puritaine
PropertyValue
Headwordpuritaine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\py.ʁi.tɛn\
Letters9
Frequency rank#58,190
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « puritaine » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).puritainetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « pupitres » (#58,189), « puys » (#58,191), « punto » (#58,188). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « puritaine » est au #58,190. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

puritaine is uncommon French at frequency #58,190 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \py.ʁi.tɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for puritaine, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is puritaine, spelled P-U-R-I-T-A-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Membre d’une secte protestante qui veut suivre la religion la plus pure.
  2. 2
    Celle qui professe une grande pureté de principes moraux ou politiques, une grande rigidité dans l’application de ces principes. Il s’emploie quelquefois dans un sens péjoratif.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how puritaine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La mère de Lena est une puritaine coincée, celle de Julia était tellement absente que c'est sa tante Ruth qui l’a élevée.
  2. Le problème semblait s’être effacé, quand Robbe-Grillet était apparu au téléphone pour lui demander son avis. « Vous ne pouvez pas publier ça. » Il n’avait pas aimé. Elle était agaçante à la fin. Normative, puritaine, conformiste. Pas un gramme de perversion; pas un gramme de fantaisie.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "puritaine"?
"puritaine" is spelled P-U-R-I-T-A-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \py.ʁi.tɛn\.
What does "puritaine" mean?
As a noun, "puritaine" means: Membre d’une secte protestante qui veut suivre la religion la plus pure.
How do you pronounce "puritaine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "puritaine" is \py.ʁi.tɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "puritaine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pédoncule#58,192prévalant#58,185prélèvent#58,184prédisait#58,183

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list