padawan
\pa.da.wan\
The verdict
“padawan” is uncommon French (frequency #56,158 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,158
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apprenti Jedi de l’univers de La Guerre des étoiles, œuvre de George Lucas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-padawan · padawan · French
padawan · rank #56,158 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,158
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ovoïde
Nearest frequency peer: ovoïde (-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 « padawan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Osasuna
Osasuna
43,846 corpus weight
- Oviedo
Oviedo
43,845 corpus weight
- ovoïde
ovoïde
43,844 corpus weight
- padawan
padawan
43,843 corpus weight
- paillard
paillard
43,842 corpus weight
- palabres
palabres
43,841 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « padawan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | padawan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.da.wan\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,158 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « padawan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
padawan is uncommon French at frequency #56,158 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.da.wan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for padawan in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is padawan, spelled P-A-D-A-W-A-N.
Definition
- 1Apprenti Jedi de l’univers de La Guerre des étoiles, œuvre de George Lucas.
- 2Apprenti, dans un autre domaine que l’univers original.
- 3Personne inexpérimentée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how padawan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette fois, un groupe de chiens aboie la célèbre Marche Impériale qui accompagne, dans les films de Lucas, les arrivées de celui qui fut jadis le padawan d’Obiwan Kenobi.
D’ailleurs, si l’échange d’équipement et d’argent est interdit, rien n’empêche le maître d’emmener son padawan dans des contrées lointaines, avec des monstres qui rendent riche et des magasins gavés d’items puissants.
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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