papaye
\pa.paj\
The verdict
“papaye” is uncommon French (frequency #54,140 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,140
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fruit du papayer, formé d’une grosse baie allongée et arrondie, à la pulpe de couleur orange, comestible, pouvant peser un kilogramme ou plus et renfermant de nombreuses graines noires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papaye · papaye · French
papaye · rank #54,140 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,140
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paradox
Nearest frequency peer: paradox (+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 « papaye »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- orangers
orangers
45,864 corpus weight
- Orangina
Orangina
45,863 corpus weight
- papaye
papaye
45,861 corpus weight
- paradox
paradox
45,860 corpus weight
- paraffine
paraffine
45,859 corpus weight
- parcourait
parcourait
45,858 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « papaye » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papaye |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.paj\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,140 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « papaye » en français
Rare enough to double-check
papaye is uncommon French at frequency #54,140 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.paj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fruit du papayer, formé d’une grosse baie allongée et arrondie, à la pulpe de couleur orange, comestible, pouvant peser un kilogramme ou plus et renfermant de nombreuses graines noires.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for papaye in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is papaye, spelled P-A-P-A-Y-E.
Definition
- 1Fruit du papayer, formé d’une grosse baie allongée et arrondie, à la pulpe de couleur orange, comestible, pouvant peser un kilogramme ou plus et renfermant de nombreuses graines noires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how papaye appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La papaye est cultivée pour son fruit, dont la pulpe est consommée en hors-d’œuvre, en dessert ou en salade mélangée avec d’autres fruits. Verte, elle peut être consommée en gratin ou en salade. — (Cirad/Gret/MAE, Mémento de l'Agronome, 1 692 pages, page 994, 2002, Paris, France, Cirad/Gret/Ministère des Affaires Étrangères)
Le nez de Zef explosa comme une papaye trop mûre.
This word in other languages
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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