pagus
The verdict
“pagus” is uncommon French (frequency #64,668 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,668
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Unité clanique gallo-romaine
Corpus desk
Index FR-pagus · pagus · French
pagus · rank #64,668 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,668
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pakistanaises
Nearest frequency peer: pakistanaises (+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 « pagus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- otarie
otarie
35,336 corpus weight
- overlord
overlord
35,335 corpus weight
- pagus
pagus
35,333 corpus weight
- pakistanais…
pakistanaises
35,332 corpus weight
- pana
pana
35,331 corpus weight
- pano
pano
35,330 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pagus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pagus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pagus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pagus is uncommon French at frequency #64,668 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for pagus in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pagus, spelled P-A-G-U-S.
Definition
- 1Unité clanique gallo-romaine
- 2Subdivision territoriale médiévale (proche du canton contemporain) souvent intégrée dans un comté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pagus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au Moyen Âge, les vieux pagi carolingiens sont éclipsés par un nouveau ressort territorial fondé sur le territoire du château.
Il discourait surtout sur un point jusqu’ici obscur qui avait fait pâlir maints savants pourtant trapus : y avait-il ou non obligation pour un pagus ou pour un oppidum d’offrir à sa population (paysans ou parfois marchands) un statut ignorant la distinction qui faisait ipso facto du Romain un individu plus important qu’un habitant du Sahara ?
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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