papayes
\pa.paj\
The verdict
“papayes” is uncommon French (frequency #98,339 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,339
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de papaye.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papayes · papayes · French
papayes · rank #98,339 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,339
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panés
Nearest frequency peer: panés (-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 « papayes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Pannier
Pannier
1,665 corpus weight
- panzers
panzers
1,664 corpus weight
- panés
panés
1,663 corpus weight
- papayes
papayes
1,662 corpus weight
- passet
passet
1,661 corpus weight
- patriciennes
patriciennes
1,660 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « papayes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papayes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.paj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,339 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « papayes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
papayes is uncommon French at frequency #98,339 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.paj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de papaye.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for papayes, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 papayes, spelled P-A-P-A-Y-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de papaye.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how papayes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les papayes fournissent un alcool qui, bien fabriqué, est d’assez bonne qualité pour qu’on puisse immédiatement l’employer à la consommation : il est d’une limpidité parfaite et a un goût de kirsch assez prononcé.
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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