puy
\pɥi\
The verdict
“puy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #9,901) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #9,901
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mont, montagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puy · puy · French
puy · rank #9,901 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,901
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prédécesseur
Nearest frequency peer: prédécesseur (-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 « puy »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- prostituées
prostituées
90,103 corpus weight
- provinciale
provinciale
90,102 corpus weight
- prédécesseur
prédécesseur
90,101 corpus weight
- puy
puy
90,100 corpus weight
- périphérie
périphérie
90,099 corpus weight
- racontent
racontent
90,098 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « puy » 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 | puy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɥi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #9,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « puy »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for puy is neighbouring look-alikes ("PV", "Py", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pɥi\. Frequency #9,901 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
puy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is puy, spelled P-U-Y.
Definition
- 1Mont, montagne.
- 2Société littéraire ou musicale pieuse des XIIIᵉ et XIVᵉ siècles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how puy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La chaîne des puys en Auvergne.
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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