paddy
French, noun/pa.di/
paddy is spelled P-A-D-D-Y (5 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 34,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Paddy is a French masculine noun meaning “paddy (rice)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom donné au riz avec son enveloppe et qui, à la meule, a échappé au décorticage ^([1])”.
What does paddy mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepaddy (rice)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom donné au riz avec son enveloppe et qui, à la meule, a échappé au décorticage ^([1]).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of paddy
- paddys plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce paddy?
- /pa.di/
- \pa.di\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to paddy
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is paddy in French?
paddy appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).