putain
\py.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“putain” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #728. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #728
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prostituée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-putain · putain · French
putain · rank #728 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #728
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH nature
Nearest frequency peer: nature (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « putain »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- impression
impression
99,276 corpus weight
- louis
louis
99,275 corpus weight
- nature
nature
99,274 corpus weight
- putain
putain
99,273 corpus weight
- simplement
simplement
99,272 corpus weight
- travers
travers
99,271 corpus weight
What this shows « putain » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | putain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \py.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #728 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « putain »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around putain (IPA \py.tɛ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #728 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for putain, with forms such as "pputain", "ptuain", and "puatin". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "putois", "putains", "pain", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is putain, spelled P-U-T-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Prostituée.
- 2Femme de vie dissolue, de mauvaise vie. — (Philippe de Thaon, Bestiaire, 834 ds T.-L.).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how putain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Ma chère petite amie, je suis bien heureux que tu sois venue. Elle avait un sourire de pauvre petite putain, ce sourire qu’elles prêtent à ceux qui paient. Elle répondit : — Vraiment ?
Dans les deux salles intérieures cependant il n’y avait pas de vagabonds mais bien de vieilles tapineuses grossièrement embijoutées, des jeunes putains de quatorze ans à l’air déjà insolent, yeux cernés et signes pâles de la tuberculose, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pputain
- ptuain
- puatin
- putainn
- putani
- putian
- puttain
- uptain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of putain - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).