paparazzis
\pa.pa.ʁad.zi\
The verdict
“paparazzis” is uncommon French (frequency #57,481 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,481
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de paparazzi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paparazzis · paparazzis · French
paparazzis · rank #57,481 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,481
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paramédicaux
Nearest frequency peer: paramédicaux (+2 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 « paparazzis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oxygénée
oxygénée
42,524 corpus weight
- paparazzis
paparazzis
42,520 corpus weight
- paramédicaux
paramédicaux
42,518 corpus weight
- parcourut
parcourut
42,517 corpus weight
- pardonnés
pardonnés
42,516 corpus weight
- parierais
parierais
42,515 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paparazzis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paparazzis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pa.ʁad.zi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #57,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paparazzis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paparazzis is uncommon French at frequency #57,481 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.pa.ʁad.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de paparazzi.".
paparazzis has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is paparazzis, spelled P-A-P-A-R-A-Z-Z-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de paparazzi.
Synonyms
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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