panis
\pa.ni\
The verdict
“panis” is uncommon French (frequency #69,291 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,291
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Esclave autochtone de la colonie du Canada, souvent originaires des Grandes Plaines et du bassin des Grands Lacs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-panis · panis · French
panis · rank #69,291 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,291
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paléographie
Nearest frequency peer: paléographie (-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 « panis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ourlets
ourlets
30,714 corpus weight
- ovo
ovo
30,713 corpus weight
- paléographie
paléographie
30,711 corpus weight
- panis
panis
30,710 corpus weight
- parapsychol…
parapsychologie
30,708 corpus weight
- partagerait
partagerait
30,707 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « panis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | panis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ni\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,291 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « panis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
panis is uncommon French at frequency #69,291 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Esclave autochtone de la colonie du Canada, souvent originaires des Grandes Plaines et du bassin des Grands Lacs.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for panis, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is panis, spelled P-A-N-I-S.
Definition
- 1Esclave autochtone de la colonie du Canada, souvent originaires des Grandes Plaines et du bassin des Grands Lacs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how panis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les nègres et panis des deux sexes resteront en leur qualité d'esclaves en la possession des Français et Canadiens, à qui ils appartiennent: il leur sera libre de les garder à leur service dans la colonie ou de les vendre ; ils pourront aussi continuer à les faire élever dans la religion romaine.
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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