paons
\pɑ̃\
The verdict
“paons” is uncommon French (frequency #58,136 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,136
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de paon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paons · paons · French
paons · rank #58,136 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,136
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH papeteries
Nearest frequency peer: papeteries (+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 « paons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paillette
paillette
41,869 corpus weight
- pajot
pajot
41,868 corpus weight
- paons
paons
41,865 corpus weight
- papeteries
papeteries
41,864 corpus weight
- Pareto
Pareto
41,863 corpus weight
- pariez
pariez
41,862 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #58,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paons is uncommon French at frequency #58,136 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de paon.".
paons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is paons, spelled P-A-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de paon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis une vingtaine d’années, les paons évoluent en liberté à Villelongue-dels-Monts, dans les Pyrénées-Orientales.
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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