pût
\py\
The verdict
“pût” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #36,553) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #36,553
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif du verbe pouvoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-put · pût · French
pût · rank #36,553 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,553
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pêcheries
Nearest frequency peer: pêcheries (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « pût »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- psychotique
psychotique
63,451 corpus weight
- pédaler
pédaler
63,450 corpus weight
- pêcheries
pêcheries
63,449 corpus weight
- pût
pût
63,448 corpus weight
- rachats
rachats
63,446 corpus weight
- rapprochées
rapprochées
63,444 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « pût » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pût |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \py\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #36,553 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « pût »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pût is neighbouring look-alikes ("PV", "Py", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \py\. Frequency #36,553 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif du verbe pouvoir.".
pût has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PV", "Py", "px", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pût, spelled P-Û-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait du subjonctif du verbe pouvoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pût appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce gentilhomme, cadet d’un cadet, vivait sur le bien de sa femme, petite terre située près de Barbezieux, qu’il exploitait à merveille en allant vendre son blé au marché, brûlant lui-même son vin, et se moquant des railleries pourvu qu’il entassât des écus, et que de temps en temps il pût amplifier son domaine.
Il se retourna pour regarder de mon côté, mais je me rejetai en arrière, afin qu’il ne pût me voir.
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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