paire de ciseaux
\pɛʁ də si.zo\
The verdict
“paire de ciseaux” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Instrument à deux lames pivotant sur un axe qui se chevauchent en partie pour couper ou rogner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paire-de-ciseaux · paire de ciseaux · French
paire de ciseaux · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-8 8 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 | paire de ciseaux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛʁ də si.zo\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paire de ciseaux » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paire de ciseaux is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛʁ də si.zo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Instrument à deux lames pivotant sur un axe qui se chevauchent en partie pour couper ou rogner.".
paire de ciseaux doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 paire de ciseaux, spelled P-A-I-R-E- -D-E- -C-I-S-E-A-U-X.
Definition
- 1Instrument à deux lames pivotant sur un axe qui se chevauchent en partie pour couper ou rogner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paire de ciseaux appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Figée devant le lit, elle a levé le bras, sa main tenait les œillets de la paire de ciseaux, lame pointée vers le bas.
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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.