baiser de paix
\bɛ.ze də pɛ\
The verdict
“baiser de paix” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Coutume de salutations signifiant l’unité de la communauté chrétienne, devenue un geste signe de paix dans la célébration de l’Eucharistie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baiser de paix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛ.ze də pɛ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “baiser de paix” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for baiser de paix is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛ.ze də pɛ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for baiser de paix in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is baiser de paix, spelled B-A-I-S-E-R- -D-E- -P-A-I-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Coutume de salutations signifiant l’unité de la communauté chrétienne, devenue un geste signe de paix dans la célébration de l’Eucharistie.
- 2Petit objet muni d’une poignée représentant une scène religieuse, souvent un épisode de la vie du Christ, embrassé successivement par le célébrant puis les fidèles en signe de paix lors d’une messe.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “baiser de paix”
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- The one correct French spelling is B-A-I-S-E-R- -D-E- -P-A-I-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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