paillage
\pa.jaʒ\
The verdict
“paillage” is uncommon French (frequency #92,015 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,015
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de pailler, de protéger la base des plantes, de couvrir le sol avec des matériaux comme de la paille, du fumier, du compost, de la tourbe, de l'écorce de pin, etc…
Corpus desk
Index FR-paillage · paillage · French
paillage · rank #92,015 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,015
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pagayer
Nearest frequency peer: pagayer (-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 « paillage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pacsés
pacsés
7,990 corpus weight
- pagayer
pagayer
7,987 corpus weight
- paillage
paillage
7,986 corpus weight
- Palaos
Palaos
7,985 corpus weight
- palestre
palestre
7,984 corpus weight
- paneuropéen
paneuropéen
7,983 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paillage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paillage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.jaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #92,015 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paillage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paillage is uncommon French at frequency #92,015 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.jaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for paillage, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 paillage, spelled P-A-I-L-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de pailler, de protéger la base des plantes, de couvrir le sol avec des matériaux comme de la paille, du fumier, du compost, de la tourbe, de l'écorce de pin, etc…
- 2Désigne les matériaux utilisés pour effectuer les tâches décrites précédemment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paillage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le paillage des truffières consiste à poser des plaques de paille de 50 cm de diamètre, recouvertes par une ou plusieurs pierres.
On peut utiliser, pour le paillage, les fanes de légumes, qui auront en outre un effet nourricier.
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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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