painter
\ˈpeɪn.tə\
The verdict
“painter” is uncommon French (frequency #80,481 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,481
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Peintre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-painter · painter · French
painter · rank #80,481 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,481
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Painlevé
Nearest frequency peer: Painlevé (-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 « painter »
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 « painter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | painter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpeɪn.tə\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « painter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
painter is uncommon French at frequency #80,481 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpeɪn.tə\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for painter in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 painter, spelled P-A-I-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Peintre.
- 2Peintre en bâtiments.
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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