país
\pə.ˈis\
The verdict
“país” is uncommon French (frequency #63,232 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,232
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pays.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pais · país · French
país · rank #63,232 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,232
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patati
Nearest frequency peer: patati (-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 « país »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- partagerai
partagerai
36,771 corpus weight
- patati
patati
36,770 corpus weight
- país
país
36,769 corpus weight
- Pendjab
Pendjab
36,768 corpus weight
- pensionnés
pensionnés
36,766 corpus weight
- percevaient
percevaient
36,765 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « país » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | país |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pə.ˈis\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « país » en français
Rare enough to double-check
país is uncommon French at frequency #63,232 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pə.ˈis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pays.".
No misspelling variants are generated for país in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is país, spelled P-A-Í-S.
Definition
- 1Pays.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).