pantois
\pɑ̃.twa\
The verdict
“pantois” is uncommon French (frequency #52,251 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,251
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est déconcerté par l’inattendu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pantois · pantois · French
pantois · rank #52,251 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,251
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH papon
Nearest frequency peer: papon (+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 « pantois »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oublierez
oublierez
47,754 corpus weight
- paieras
paieras
47,752 corpus weight
- pantois
pantois
47,750 corpus weight
- papon
papon
47,749 corpus weight
- parleras
parleras
47,748 corpus weight
- passiez
passiez
47,747 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pantois » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pantois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pɑ̃.twa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,251 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pantois » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pantois is uncommon French at frequency #52,251 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pɑ̃.twa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for pantois in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pantois, spelled P-A-N-T-O-I-S.
Definition
- 1Qui est déconcerté par l’inattendu.
- 2Pantelant, haletant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pantois appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les Algonquins sont pantois de ce qui arrive, les gens de France ne sont pas les plus puissants.
Elle te sourit, elle l’a lu avant toi, elle referme la porte en te souhaitant bonne lecture et te prévient que tu vas voir, elle pense que la fin va te laisser pantoise.
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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