puro
\py.ʁo\
The verdict
“puro” is uncommon French (frequency #97,322 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,322
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cigare dont toutes les feuilles sont composées d’un tabac de même origine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puro · puro · French
puro · rank #97,322 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,322
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH purgent
Nearest frequency peer: purgent (-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 « puro »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prétendais
prétendais
2,684 corpus weight
- puja
puja
2,681 corpus weight
- purgent
purgent
2,680 corpus weight
- puro
puro
2,679 corpus weight
- puéricultri…
puéricultrice
2,678 corpus weight
- Qaraqosh
Qaraqosh
2,675 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puro » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \py.ʁo\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #97,322 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puro » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puro is uncommon French at frequency #97,322 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \py.ʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cigare dont toutes les feuilles sont composées d’un tabac de même origine.".
puro has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is puro, spelled P-U-R-O.
Definition
- 1Cigare dont toutes les feuilles sont composées d’un tabac de même origine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how puro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À l’odeur de la pipe ou du cigare, les femmes s’évanouissaient : elles se sont bien aguerries depuis, et plus d’une lèvre rose presse avec amour le bout doré d’un puro, dans le boudoir changé en tabagie.
La cigarera de Séville est un type, comme la manola de Madrid. Il faut la voir, le dimanche ou les jours de courses de taureaux, avec sa basquine frangée d’immenses volants, ses manches garnies de boutons de jais, et le puro dont elle aspire la fumée, et qu’elle passe de temps à autre à son galant.
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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