paons de nuit
\pɑ̃ də nɥi\
The verdict
“paons de nuit” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de paon de nuit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paons de nuit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ̃ də nɥi\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paons de nuit” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for paons de nuit is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɑ̃ də nɥi\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de paon de nuit.".
No misspelling variants are generated for paons de nuit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 paons de nuit, spelled P-A-O-N-S- -D-E- -N-U-I-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de paon de nuit.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “paons de nuit”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-O-N-S- -D-E- -N-U-I-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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