pagination

\pa.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\

/\pa.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“pagination” is uncommon French (frequency #52,886 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,886
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action ou manière de paginer, numérotation des pages.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pagination · pagination · French

pagination · rank #52,886 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,886
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH Ozon

Nearest frequency peer: Ozon (-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 « pagination »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pagination » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for pagination
PropertyValue
Headwordpagination
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#52,886
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « pagination » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).paginationtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Ozon » (#52,885), « panoramiques » (#52,888), « ourlet » (#52,883). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pagination » est au #52,886. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pagination is uncommon French at frequency #52,886 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

pagination has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pagination, spelled P-A-G-I-N-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action ou manière de paginer, numérotation des pages.
  2. 2
    Nombre de pages d’un ouvrage imprimé.
  3. 3
    Technique, utilisée sur les ordinateurs, pour découper les espaces d’adressage de la mémoire vive en zones égales (pages) afin de les sauvegarder dans la mémoire virtuelle et de les restaurer en mémoire vive en fonction des besoins du système d’exploitation.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pagination appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En mars 1978 apparaissait chez les libraires le premier reprint qui, s’il livrait enfin à de nombreux chercheurs le texte intégral, n’en respectait ni la pagination, ni le format.
  2. La pagination de ce livre commence au titre.

Synonyms

foliotage

This word in other languages

pagination(English)paginación(Español)Paginierung(Deutsch)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pagination"?
"pagination" is spelled P-A-G-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\.
What does "pagination" mean?
As a noun, "pagination" means: Action ou manière de paginer, numérotation des pages.
How do you pronounce "pagination"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pagination" is \pa.ʒi.na.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pagination" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pagination", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list