packer
\pa.kœʁ\
The verdict
“packer” is uncommon French (frequency #72,593 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,593
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Logiciel de compression et protection de données.
Corpus desk
Index FR-packer · packer · French
packer · rank #72,593 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,593
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH oster
Nearest frequency peer: oster (-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 « packer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oriol
oriol
27,411 corpus weight
- ornithologue
ornithologue
27,410 corpus weight
- oster
oster
27,409 corpus weight
- packer
packer
27,408 corpus weight
- Palmade
Palmade
27,407 corpus weight
- Paolini
Paolini
27,406 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « packer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | packer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.kœʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « packer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
packer is uncommon French at frequency #72,593 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.kœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for packer, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is packer, spelled P-A-C-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1Logiciel de compression et protection de données.
- 2Objet dissimulé dans un sous-vêtement qui simule la présence d’un pénis, utilisé par les hommes trans et les cross-dresseuses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how packer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fait main, peut inclure une pochette pour un packer, en partenariat avec des associations pour des distributions gratuites de caleçons menstruels aux personnes précaires.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).