pager
\pɛ.dʒœʁ\
The verdict
“pager” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil permettant de capter des messages radio.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pager · pager · French
pager · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pager |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ.dʒœʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pager » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pager is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛ.dʒœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Appareil permettant de capter des messages radio.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pager, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pager, spelled P-A-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Appareil permettant de capter des messages radio.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pager appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les spots publicitaires pour les bipers ou pagers (gadgets électroniques permettant de communiquer des messages à leur porteur à tout moment) «Tatoo» et «Tam-Tam» y font respectivement référence, dans le slogan «pour être toujours en contact avec votre tribu», pour le premier, et implicitement dans le nom du second, le tam-tam faisant allusion au mode de…
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