pae
\ˈpɛː\
The verdict
“pae” is uncommon French (frequency #70,915 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,915
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paie, paiement, rémunération, salaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pae · pae · French
pae · rank #70,915 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,915
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pact
Nearest frequency peer: pact (-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 « pae »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oïdium
oïdium
29,090 corpus weight
- pact
pact
29,087 corpus weight
- pae
pae
29,086 corpus weight
- Paganini
Paganini
29,085 corpus weight
- panaméen
panaméen
29,083 corpus weight
- pancréatique
pancréatique
29,082 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pae » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pae |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɛː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #70,915 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pae » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pae is uncommon French at frequency #70,915 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpɛː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Paie, paiement, rémunération, salaire.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pae, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pae, spelled P-A-E.
Definition
- 1Paie, paiement, rémunération, salaire.
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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