pampas
\pɑ̃.pa\
The verdict
“pampas” is uncommon French (frequency #97,251 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,251
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pampa.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pampas · pampas · French
pampas · rank #97,251 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,251
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH palmiste
Nearest frequency peer: palmiste (-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 « pampas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paki
paki
2,753 corpus weight
- palice
palice
2,752 corpus weight
- palmiste
palmiste
2,751 corpus weight
- pampas
pampas
2,750 corpus weight
- Pamuk
Pamuk
2,749 corpus weight
- Panaméens
Panaméens
2,748 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pampas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pampas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.pa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pampas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pampas is uncommon French at frequency #97,251 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɑ̃.pa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pampa.".
pampas doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 pampas, spelled P-A-M-P-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pampa.
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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