Paisley
\pez.lɛ\
The verdict
“Paisley” is uncommon French (frequency #63,978 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,978
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Écosse situé dans le district de Renfrewshire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paisley · Paisley · French
Paisley · rank #63,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,978
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pacificateur
Nearest frequency peer: pacificateur (-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 « Paisley »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ouzbek
ouzbek
36,026 corpus weight
- owner
owner
36,025 corpus weight
- pacificateur
pacificateur
36,024 corpus weight
- Paisley
Paisley
36,023 corpus weight
- panégyrique
panégyrique
36,022 corpus weight
- parasitaires
parasitaires
36,021 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Paisley » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Paisley |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pez.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #63,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Paisley » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Paisley is uncommon French at frequency #63,978 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pez.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville d’Écosse situé dans le district de Renfrewshire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Paisley in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 Paisley, spelled P-A-I-S-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Écosse situé dans le district de Renfrewshire.
This word in other languages
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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