pagaye
French, noun
pagaye is spelled P-A-G-A-Y-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 34 million words in written French, the 186,002nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pagaye is a French feminine noun meaning “alternative spelling of pagaille” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, pagayé is a different word: “past participle of pagayer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de pagaille”.
What does pagaye mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininealternative spelling of pagaille
verb
- 1
past participle of pagayer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante de pagaille.
noun: 1. Variante de pagaie.
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 pagaye
- pagayes plural
- pagayée feminine
- pagayés masculine plural
- pagayées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is pagaye in French?
pagaye appears about once in every 34 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).