panais
\pa.nɛ\
The verdict
“panais” is uncommon French (frequency #61,012 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,012
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante potagère, de la famille des apiacées (ombellifères).
Corpus desk
Index FR-panais · panais · French
panais · rank #61,012 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,012
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paléontologue
Nearest frequency peer: paléontologue (-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 « panais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- palourdes
palourdes
38,992 corpus weight
- palpation
palpation
38,991 corpus weight
- paléontolog…
paléontologue
38,990 corpus weight
- panais
panais
38,989 corpus weight
- parallaxe
parallaxe
38,988 corpus weight
- partirez
partirez
38,987 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « panais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | panais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « panais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
panais is uncommon French at frequency #61,012 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
panais has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 panais, spelled P-A-N-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Plante potagère, de la famille des apiacées (ombellifères).
- 2Racine de cette plante qui est d’un blanc jaunâtre et d’une saveur douce.
- 3Pénis, sexe masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how panais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les panais se multiplient de graine, laquelle est plate, de figure ovale, & de couleur brune : […].
Il y avait dans ce temps-là de grands hivers, de brûlants étés. J’ai connu, depuis, des étés dont la couleur, si je ferme les yeux, est celle de la terre ocreuse, fendillée entre les tiges du blé et sous la géante ombelle du panais sauvage, celle de la mer grise ou bleue.
Synonyms
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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