paillassons
\pa.ja.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“paillassons” is uncommon French (frequency #81,417 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,417
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de paillasson.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paillassons · paillassons · French
paillassons · rank #81,417 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,417
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH overall
Nearest frequency peer: overall (-2 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 « paillassons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ostensible
ostensible
18,588 corpus weight
- ostéopathes
ostéopathes
18,587 corpus weight
- overall
overall
18,586 corpus weight
- paillassons
paillassons
18,584 corpus weight
- palindrome
palindrome
18,582 corpus weight
- papouilles
papouilles
18,581 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paillassons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paillassons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ja.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #81,417 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paillassons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paillassons is uncommon French at frequency #81,417 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ja.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de paillasson.".
Zero misspellings are on record for paillassons in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is paillassons, spelled P-A-I-L-L-A-S-S-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de paillasson.
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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