pâmer
\pɑ.me\
The verdict
“pâmer” is uncommon French (frequency #98,400 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,400
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tomber en défaillance, s’évanouir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pamer · pâmer · French
pâmer · rank #98,400 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,400
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pupuce
Nearest frequency peer: Pupuce (-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 « pâmer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- préservons
préservons
1,606 corpus weight
- prétraiteme…
prétraitement
1,605 corpus weight
- Pupuce
Pupuce
1,602 corpus weight
- pâmer
pâmer
1,601 corpus weight
- pénard
pénard
1,600 corpus weight
- quotients
quotients
1,597 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pâmer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pâmer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɑ.me\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pâmer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pâmer is uncommon French at frequency #98,400 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pɑ.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for pâmer in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 pâmer, spelled P-Â-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tomber en défaillance, s’évanouir.
- 2Devenir incapable de respirer en raison d'un malaise physique.
- 3Pour une plante, se flétrir.
- 4Tomber en défaillance.
- 5Devenir incapable de respirer en raison d'un malaise physique.
- 6Se laisser aller au transport d'une émotion forte agréable, comme la joie, l'admiration, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pâmer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il n’en peut plus, il pâme.
Avec cela si drôle que je pâmais de rire et que ma mère s’écriait : "Arrêtez-vous, Baldi ! Cadio ne pourra plus dormir." Et le fait est que mes nerfs étaient solides pour résister à de pareilles excitations.
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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