putting
\pu.tiŋ\
The verdict
“putting” is uncommon French (frequency #77,833 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,833
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coup joué sur le green avec un putter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-putting · putting · French
putting · rank #77,833 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,833
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH punitif
Nearest frequency peer: punitif (-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 « putting »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prévisionne…
prévisionnels
22,171 corpus weight
- prêteront
prêteront
22,170 corpus weight
- punitif
punitif
22,169 corpus weight
- putting
putting
22,168 corpus weight
- pâquerette
pâquerette
22,167 corpus weight
- pèserait
pèserait
22,166 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « putting » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | putting |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pu.tiŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « putting » en français
Rare enough to double-check
putting is uncommon French at frequency #77,833 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pu.tiŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Coup joué sur le green avec un putter.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for putting, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is putting, spelled P-U-T-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Coup joué sur le green avec un putter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how putting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un maître paumier a été engagé par la Société pour donner des leçons et surveiller l’entretien des terrains. Comme les années précédentes, un petit terrain de golf sera aménagé pour permettre de s’exercer au « putting ».
Le rythme est un élément primordial. Imaginez un métronome bougeant d’un côté à l’autre : c’est pareil au putting. Gardez la même vitesse au backswing et à la descente.
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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