pads
\pad\
The verdict
“pads” is uncommon French (frequency #96,215 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,215
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pad.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pads · pads · French
pads · rank #96,215 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,215
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panachage
Nearest frequency peer: panachage (+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 « pads »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oxalate
oxalate
3,790 corpus weight
- Ozawa
Ozawa
3,789 corpus weight
- pads
pads
3,786 corpus weight
- panachage
panachage
3,785 corpus weight
- papille
papille
3,784 corpus weight
- parco
parco
3,782 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pads » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pads |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pad\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,215 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pads » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pads is uncommon French at frequency #96,215 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pad.".
pads has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pads, spelled P-A-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pad.
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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