paix
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#908
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
paix is aFrenchnoun. It means: Calme, repos, silence, éloignement du bruit ou des affaires. Pronounced \pɛ\. It ranks #908 in French word frequency. Often confused with pi and px.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for paix is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #908 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for paix, with forms such as "apix", "paixx", and "paxi". 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, "pi", "px", "pas", 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 paix, spelled P-A-I-X, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Calme, repos, silence, éloignement du bruit ou des affaires.
- 2Concorde, tranquillité intérieure qui règne dans les États, dans les familles, dans les sociétés.
- 3Situation tranquille d’un État, d’un peuple, d’un royaume, d’une famille, etc.
- 4Traité qui termine une guerre.
- 5Réconciliation.
- 6Tranquillité de l’âme, du cœur ou de l’esprit.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apix,paixx,paxi,piax,ppaix
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for paix
Misspelling Variants of "paix"
Frequency rank: #908 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our French index: