puys
\pɥi\
The verdict
“puys” is uncommon French (frequency #58,191 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,191
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de puy.
Corpus desk
Index FR-puys · puys · French
puys · rank #58,191 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,191
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH puritaine
Nearest frequency peer: puritaine (-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 « puys »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- punto
punto
41,813 corpus weight
- pupitres
pupitres
41,812 corpus weight
- puritaine
puritaine
41,811 corpus weight
- puys
puys
41,810 corpus weight
- pédoncule
pédoncule
41,809 corpus weight
- quinquennale
quinquennale
41,807 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « puys » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | puys |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɥi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #58,191 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « puys » en français
Rare enough to double-check
puys is uncommon French at frequency #58,191 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɥi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de puy.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for puys, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is puys, spelled P-U-Y-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de puy.
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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