packing
\pa.kiŋ\
The verdict
“packing” is uncommon French (frequency #97,244 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,244
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Technique de traitement consistant à envelopper transitoirement un patient de linges froids et humides.
Corpus desk
Index FR-packing · packing · French
packing · rank #97,244 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,244
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pachtounes
Nearest frequency peer: Pachtounes (-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 « packing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Oumou
Oumou
2,761 corpus weight
- outragée
outragée
2,760 corpus weight
- Pachtounes
Pachtounes
2,758 corpus weight
- packing
packing
2,757 corpus weight
- pagaies
pagaies
2,756 corpus weight
- paik
paik
2,755 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « packing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | packing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.kiŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,244 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « packing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
packing is uncommon French at frequency #97,244 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.kiŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for packing in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is packing, spelled P-A-C-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Technique de traitement consistant à envelopper transitoirement un patient de linges froids et humides.
- 2Compresse mise en place dans le pharynx lors d'anesthésie par inhalation, pendant les interventions chirurgicales de la sphère O.R.L. ou maxillo-faciale et lorsque le malade est intubé. Cette compresse a pour effet d'éviter l'envahissement de la trachée par du sang ou d'autres fluides.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how packing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut donc demander un ballonnet peu gonflé, et systématiquement, de toute façon, placer soi-même un « packing » bucco-pharyngé, tassé autour de la sonde, jusque derrière la base de la langue dans le pharynx.
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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