pampa
\pɑ̃.pa\
The verdict
“pampa” is uncommon French (frequency #51,644 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,644
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vaste plaine d’Amérique du Sud, dont le climat et la végétation sont ceux de la steppe (prairie, savane, brousse tempérée).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pampa · pampa · French
pampa · rank #51,644 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,644
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ottomanes
Nearest frequency peer: ottomanes (-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 « pampa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ostracisme
ostracisme
48,360 corpus weight
- otaries
otaries
48,359 corpus weight
- ottomanes
ottomanes
48,358 corpus weight
- pampa
pampa
48,357 corpus weight
- paraissez
paraissez
48,356 corpus weight
- paralysant
paralysant
48,355 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pampa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pampa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.pa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pampa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pampa is uncommon French at frequency #51,644 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɑ̃.pa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for pampa in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 pampa, spelled P-A-M-P-A.
Definition
- 1Vaste plaine d’Amérique du Sud, dont le climat et la végétation sont ceux de la steppe (prairie, savane, brousse tempérée).
- 2Coin de campagne reculé, vaste plaine, cambrousse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pampa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lui, un homme d’action autrefois, était devenu une étonnante machine à rêve comme ceux qui ont longtemps habité la mer ou les pampas : toujours l’horizon ou le mur de leur chambre a quelque confuse nouvelle à leur annoncer.
Dans une prairie, toutes les plantes sont herbacées et on n'y voit en général pas un arbuste ou un arbre isolé. Je parle naturellement des paysages naturels comme la Prairie ou la Pampa.
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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