paillade
\pa.jad\
The verdict
“paillade” is uncommon French (frequency #85,990 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,990
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Paillasse, paille étendue à terre.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paillade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.jad\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #85,990 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paillade” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
paillade is uncommon French at frequency #85,990 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.jad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Paillasse, paille étendue à terre.".
paillade doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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 paillade, spelled P-A-I-L-L-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Paillasse, paille étendue à terre.
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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Using “paillade”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-I-L-L-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.