paillotte
\pa.jɔt\
The verdict
“paillotte” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de paillote, la hutte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paillotte · paillotte · French
paillotte · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paillotte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.jɔt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paillotte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paillotte is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.jɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante de paillote, la hutte.".
paillotte doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 paillotte, spelled P-A-I-L-L-O-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Variante de paillote, la hutte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paillotte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pour éviter que les termites ne détruisent ma paillotte, j’avais fait poser ses quatre pied dans ds boîtes de conserve emplies d’huile de vidange.
Ce terme signifiait tout simplement que le règne des paillottes prévalait celui des bâtiments en dur, que le moindre indigène voulait s’affubler d'un veston à l’indienne, d'un chèche de policier, et que la plus grande pagaille régnait en moins de six mois.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.