païenne

Name: païenne, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\pa.jɛn\

/\pa.jɛn\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“païenne” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,092. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,092
frequency rank, French: 6,826
“P” headwords: 7
tracked misspellings: 11
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne ne pratiquant pas la religion juive ou chrétienne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-paienne · païenne · French

païenne · rank #36,092 · 7 variants · 11 confusables

FREQ-MID #36,092
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
VAR-MID 7 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,826
PHOTO-FINISH patineuse

Nearest frequency peer: patineuse (-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.

patelin

63,912
patiner

63,911
patineuse

63,910
païenne

63,909
peaufiner

63,907
penchés

63,906

What this shows « païenne » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

païenne vs panne

71% similar

païenne vs prenne

71% similar

païenne vs paient

57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for païenne
Property	Value
Headword	païenne
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\pa.jɛn\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#36,092
Misspellings tracked	7
Confusable pairs	11
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « païenne »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.païennese place ici:

#36,092

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « patineuse » (#36,091), « patiner » (#36,090), « peaufiner » (#36,094). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « païenne » est au #36,092. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around païenne (IPA \pa.jɛn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,092 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for païenne, with forms such as "apïenne", "paeïnne", and "païene". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "panne", "prenne", "paient", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is païenne, spelled P-A-Ï-E-N-N-E.

Definition

1
Personne ne pratiquant pas la religion juive ou chrétienne.
2
Personne qui pratique un paganisme, un polythéisme ou un animisme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

Elle la païenne, l’athée, l’incroyante, elle sur laquelle la foi des autres en une autre vie exerçait une étrange fascination.

This word in other languages

pagana(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

apïenne
paeïnne
païene
païenen
païnene
ppaïenne
pïaenne

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of païenne - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "païenne"

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 "païenne"?

"païenne" is spelled P-A-Ï-E-N-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.jɛn\.

What does "païenne" mean?

As a noun, "païenne" means: Personne ne pratiquant pas la religion juive ou chrétienne.

What words are commonly confused with "païenne"?

"païenne" is commonly confused with "panne", "prenne", "paient". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "païenne"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "païenne" is \pa.jɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "païenne" come from?

"païenne" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

patiner#36,090 patelin#36,089 penchés#36,095 Perrine#36,097

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

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