pustule
\pys.tyl\
The verdict
“pustule” is uncommon French (frequency #66,264 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,264
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite tumeur inflammatoire qui s’élève sur la peau et qui se termine par une suppuration.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pustule · pustule · French
pustule · rank #66,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,264
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pugnacité
Nearest frequency peer: pugnacité (-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 « pustule »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- publierons
publierons
33,740 corpus weight
- Publius
Publius
33,739 corpus weight
- pugnacité
pugnacité
33,738 corpus weight
- pustule
pustule
33,737 corpus weight
- pénalisée
pénalisée
33,736 corpus weight
- périurbain
périurbain
33,735 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pustule » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pustule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pys.tyl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #66,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pustule » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pustule is uncommon French at frequency #66,264 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pys.tyl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Petite tumeur inflammatoire qui s’élève sur la peau et qui se termine par une suppuration.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pustule in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pustule, spelled P-U-S-T-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petite tumeur inflammatoire qui s’élève sur la peau et qui se termine par une suppuration.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pustule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Toutefois dans la pustule de la vaccine, l’activité du virus dépend de l’âge de la lésion ; la lymphe perd de sa virulence passé le septième jour.
L’espèce de linceul qui le recouvrait était tombé jusqu’à ses hanches ; et ses épaules, sa poitrine, ses bras maigres disparaissaient sous des plaques de pustules écailleuses.
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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