paillon

/\pa.jɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#75,068

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

paillon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Enveloppe de paille qui sert à emballer des bouteilles. Pronounced \pa.jɔ̃\.

Key facts for paillon
PropertyValue
Headwordpaillon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.jɔ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#75,068
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of paillon in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for paillon is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.jɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #75,068 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for paillon in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 paillon, spelled P-A-I-L-L-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Enveloppe de paille qui sert à emballer des bouteilles.
  2. 2
    Grosse paillette.
  3. 3
    Lamelles de cuivre battu, très minces, colorées d’un côté, dont les joailliers mettent de petits morceaux au fond des chatons des pierres précieuses et des cristaux.
  4. 4
    Petit morceau de soudure.
  5. 5
    Feuille d'étain très mince.
  6. 6
    Infidélité.
  7. 7
    Treillis de bois, de paille ou de métal pour fromages, sur lesquels ils poursuivent leur égouttage et leur affinage.
  8. 8
    Petite lame d'acier dont l'assemblage forme la chaîne du ressort à fusée d'une montre.
  9. 9
    Maille d'une scie à chaînette.

Frequency rank: #75,068 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "paillon"?
"paillon" is spelled P-A-I-L-L-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.jɔ̃\.
What does "paillon" mean?
As a noun, "paillon" means: Enveloppe de paille qui sert à emballer des bouteilles.
How do you pronounce "paillon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "paillon" is \pa.jɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "paillon" come from?
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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.