pad thaï

/\pad taj\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

pad thaï is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plat thaïlandais à base de nouilles de riz, d’œufs de crevettes ou de viande, le tout assaisonné de soja et de cacahuètes. Pronounced \pad taj\.

Key facts for pad thaï
PropertyValue
Headwordpad thaï
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pad taj\
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

pad thaï is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pad thaï is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pad taj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plat thaïlandais à base de nouilles de riz, d’œufs de crevettes ou de viande, le tout assaisonné de soja et de cacahuètes.".

No misspelling variants are generated for pad thaï 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 pad thaï, spelled P-A-D- -T-H-A-Ï, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plat thaïlandais à base de nouilles de riz, d’œufs de crevettes ou de viande, le tout assaisonné de soja et de cacahuètes.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pad thaï"?
"pad thaï" is spelled P-A-D- -T-H-A-Ï. The IPA pronunciation is \pad taj\.
What does "pad thaï" mean?
As a noun, "pad thaï" means: Plat thaïlandais à base de nouilles de riz, d’œufs de crevettes ou de viande, le tout assaisonné de soja et de cacahuètes.
How do you pronounce "pad thaï"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pad thaï" is \pad taj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pad thaï" come from?
"pad thaï" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.