pus
French, noun/py/
pus is spelled P-U-S (3 letters) and appears 3.7 times per million words in written French, the 13,759th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pus is a French masculine noun meaning “pus (bodily fluid)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/second-person singular past historic of pouvoir. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Matière liquide, épaisse, blanchâtre, qui se forme dans les abcès, qui sort des plaies et des ulcères”.
What does pus mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepus (bodily fluid)
adverb
- 1
syncopic form of plus (“more; no more, no longer”)
verb
- 1
first/second-person singular past historic of pouvoir
verb
- 1
masculineraremasculine plural of pu
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Matière liquide, épaisse, blanchâtre, qui se forme dans les abcès, qui sort des plaies et des ulcères.
adverb: 1. Déformation de l’adverbe plus.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pus
- pu
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pus?
- /py/
- /pys/
- [pys]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pus
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pus in French?
pus appears 3.7 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).