papaoutai
\pa.pa.u.te\
The verdict
“papaoutai” is uncommon French (frequency #66,970 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,970
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple de papaouter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papaoutai · papaoutai · French
papaoutai · rank #66,970 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,970
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH owl
Nearest frequency peer: owl (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “papaoutai”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- oris
oris
33,035 corpus weight
- ornaient
ornaient
33,034 corpus weight
- owl
owl
33,032 corpus weight
- papaoutai
papaoutai
33,031 corpus weight
- papel
papel
33,030 corpus weight
- paradiso
paradiso
33,028 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “papaoutai” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papaoutai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.pa.u.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “papaoutai” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
papaoutai is uncommon French at frequency #66,970 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.pa.u.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du passé simple de papaouter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for papaoutai, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is papaoutai, spelled P-A-P-A-O-U-T-A-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple de papaouter.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.