paladins
\pa.la.dɛ̃\
The verdict
“paladins” is uncommon French (frequency #61,008 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,008
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de paladin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paladins · paladins · French
paladins · rank #61,008 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,008
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH oyster
Nearest frequency peer: oyster (-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 « paladins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oumma
oumma
38,996 corpus weight
- outlander
outlander
38,995 corpus weight
- oyster
oyster
38,994 corpus weight
- paladins
paladins
38,993 corpus weight
- palourdes
palourdes
38,992 corpus weight
- palpation
palpation
38,991 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paladins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paladins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.la.dɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,008 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paladins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paladins is uncommon French at frequency #61,008 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.la.dɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de paladin.".
paladins has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is paladins, spelled P-A-L-A-D-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de paladin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paladins appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ne vous laisse-t-elle pas votre liberté ? vient-elle d’un pied jaloux jeter un coup d’œil dans les salons de Paris ? vous impose-t-elle les devoirs d’une emprinse, les chaînes que les paladins se mettaient jadis au bras volontairement ?
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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