paillasson
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#35,626
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
paillasson is aFrenchnoun. It means: Natte de paille, tapis de fibre végétale ou synthétique, que l’on met à l’entrée d’une maison ou d’un appartement pour permettre de s’essuyer les pieds. Pronounced \pa.ja.sɔ̃\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paillasson |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ja.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #35,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for paillasson is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ja.sɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,626 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for paillasson, with forms such as "apillasson", "pailalsson", and "pailasson". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is paillasson, spelled P-A-I-L-L-A-S-S-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Natte de paille, tapis de fibre végétale ou synthétique, que l’on met à l’entrée d’une maison ou d’un appartement pour permettre de s’essuyer les pieds.
- 2Paillasse peu épaisse.
- 3Endroit ou chose qui a l’apparence d’un tapis servant à s’essuyer les pieds.
- 4Tapis de joncs servant à faire sécher le fromage. → voir paillisse
- 5Sorte de claie faite avec de la paille longue, étendue et attachée sur des perches, qui sert à garantir de la gelée les couches et les espaliers ; ou que l’on met sur les serres pour les garantir du soleil et des intempéries.
- 6Personne qui n’est pas respectée et qu’on se sent le droit d’humilier.
- 7Tresse de paille destinée à la confection de chapeau, le chapeau lui-même.
- 8Plat composé de pommes de terre, ou autres tubercules, râpées cuites.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apillasson,pailalsson,pailasson,paillason,paillasosn,paillassno,paillassonn,paillsason,palilasson,piallasson,ppaillasson
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "paillasson"
Frequency rank: #35,626 in French
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