pailleté
\paj.te\
The verdict
“pailleté” is uncommon French (frequency #87,919 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,919
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est brodé de paillettes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paillete · pailleté · French
pailleté · rank #87,919 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,919
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH oxygéner
Nearest frequency peer: oxygéner (-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 « pailleté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- overland
overland
12,085 corpus weight
- oxyder
oxyder
12,084 corpus weight
- oxygéner
oxygéner
12,083 corpus weight
- pailleté
pailleté
12,082 corpus weight
- paillis
paillis
12,081 corpus weight
- Palestrina
Palestrina
12,080 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pailleté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pailleté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \paj.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,919 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pailleté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pailleté is uncommon French at frequency #87,919 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \paj.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pailleté, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pailleté, spelled P-A-I-L-L-E-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est brodé de paillettes.
- 2Qui contient des paillettes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pailleté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On peut dire qu'elle ne vit que des yeux, des yeux dont auparavant elle n'avait jamais remarqué la couleur, et qui étaient gris, d'un gris un peu doré, d'un gris pailleté, des yeux extraordinaires, dont elle ne supporta pas le regard.
A mesure qu'on s'élève dans le système, le quarzite qui alterne avec ces roches devient plus noirâtre, pyritifère, schistoïde et pailleté.
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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