paon
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,277
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
paon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Grand oiseau domesticable, de l’ordre des gallinacés, dont le cri est strident, qui a un beau plumage mordoré, une petite aigrette sur la tête et dont la queue se compose de longues plumes couverte... Pronounced \pɑ̃\. Often confused with Po and PN.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #28,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for paon is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #28,277 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for paon, with forms such as "apon", "pano", and "paonn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Po", "PN", "pas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is paon, spelled P-A-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Grand oiseau domesticable, de l’ordre des gallinacés, dont le cri est strident, qui a un beau plumage mordoré, une petite aigrette sur la tête et dont la queue se compose de longues plumes couvertes d’ocelles, marques de différentes couleurs en forme d’yeux.
- 2Grand oiseau domesticable, de l’ordre des gallinacés, dont le cri est strident, qui a un beau plumage mordoré, une petite aigrette sur la tête et dont la queue se compose de longues plumes couvertes d’ocelles, marques de différentes couleurs en forme d’yeux.
- 3Papillons qui ont sur leurs ailes des ocelles chatoyantes (tâches en forme d’yeux), qui évoquent celles des plumes de la queue du paon.
- 4Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries. Il est généralement représenté avec une huppe et de profil, la queue abaissée. Il peut également être de front faisant la roue, il faut alors le préciser dans le blasonnement en le qualifiant de rouant.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apon,pano,paonn,poan,ppaon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for paon
Misspelling Variants of "paon"
Frequency rank: #28,277 in French
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