paire
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,630
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
paire is aFrenchnoun. It means: Deux choses de même espèce, qui vont nécessairement ou ordinairement ensemble. Pronounced \pɛʁ\. It ranks #3,630 in French word frequency. Often confused with par and pré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for paire is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,630 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for paire, with forms such as "apire", "paier", and "pairre". 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, "par", "pré", "pie", 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 paire, spelled P-A-I-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Deux choses de même espèce, qui vont nécessairement ou ordinairement ensemble.
- 2Deux choses de même espèce, qui vont nécessairement ou ordinairement ensemble.
- 3Deux choses de même espèce, qui vont nécessairement ou ordinairement ensemble.
- 4Deux choses de même espèce, qui vont nécessairement ou ordinairement ensemble.
- 5Un certain nombre, généralement strictement supérieur à deux.
- 6Ensemble de deux timbres attenant l’un à l’autre.
- 7Ensemble à deux éléments distincts.
- 8Dans certains jeux de cartes, deux cartes de même valeur détenues par un joueur.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apire,paier,pairre,parie,piare,ppaire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for paire
Misspelling Variants of "paire"
Frequency rank: #3,630 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our French index: