pain
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,925
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pain is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pâte cuite au four, à base de farine, d’eau et de levure de boulanger ou de levain. Pronounced \pɛ̃\. It ranks #1,925 in French word frequency. Often confused with pi and PN.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pain is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,925 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for pain, with forms such as "apin", "painn", and "pani". 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 also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pi", "PN", "pas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 pain, spelled P-A-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pâte cuite au four, à base de farine, d’eau et de levure de boulanger ou de levain.
- 2Morceau de pain considéré en tant qu’unité de cuisson ou de vente, en général sous une forme définie : une baguette de pain, un pain de campagne, un pain azyme, …
- 3Baguette de 400 grammes (le terme baguette étant dans ce cas réservé à la baguette de 250 grammes).
- 4Tout objet qui prend la forme d’un pain.
- 5Nourriture, moyens de subsistance.
- 6Coup de poing.
- 7Erreur grossière, fausse note, couac.
- 8Jour de prison.
- 9Crush, personne pour qui on a une attirance.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apin,painn,pani,pian,ppain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pain
Misspelling Variants of "pain"
Frequency rank: #1,925 in French
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