Painlevé
The verdict
“Painlevé” is uncommon French (frequency #80,480 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,480
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-painleve · Painlevé · French
Painlevé · rank #80,480 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,480
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH painter
Nearest frequency peer: painter (+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 « Painlevé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ovocyte
ovocyte
19,524 corpus weight
- Painlevé
Painlevé
19,521 corpus weight
- painter
painter
19,520 corpus weight
- palms
palms
19,518 corpus weight
- Parigot
Parigot
19,517 corpus weight
- paseo
paseo
19,516 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Painlevé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Painlevé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,480 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Painlevé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Painlevé is uncommon French at frequency #80,480 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Painlevé in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Painlevé, spelled P-A-I-N-L-E-V-É.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Painlevé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Assemblée Générale du Mouvement de la Paix de Corrèze se déroulera le 17 juin Maison du Bénévolat, Bd Paul Painlevé à Brive.
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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