paperasserie
\pa.pʁa.sʁi\
The verdict
“paperasserie” is uncommon French (frequency #68,532 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,532
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Multiplication abusive des écritures administratives.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paperasserie · paperasserie · French
paperasserie · rank #68,532 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,532
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panza
Nearest frequency peer: panza (-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 « paperasserie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- palu
palu
31,472 corpus weight
- panaméricai…
panaméricains
31,471 corpus weight
- panza
panza
31,470 corpus weight
- paperasserie
paperasserie
31,469 corpus weight
- parkway
parkway
31,468 corpus weight
- passoires
passoires
31,467 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paperasserie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paperasserie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pʁa.sʁi\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #68,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paperasserie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paperasserie is uncommon French at frequency #68,532 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.pʁa.sʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Multiplication abusive des écritures administratives.".
paperasserie doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 paperasserie, spelled P-A-P-E-R-A-S-S-E-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Multiplication abusive des écritures administratives.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paperasserie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut y mettre un grand soin ou, au contraire, faire preuve d’une absolue négligence pour disparaître en pleine paix, en plein vingtième siècle, malgré l’intense paperasserie de contrôle, les fiches, les visas, les photos, les mesures, les empreintes, les mille et un moyens dont dispose la police pour piéger son homme au terme d’une enquête.
Mais tous font état d'un système d'une complexité inouïe. […]. Un véritable labyrinthe de papier — pour ne pas dire de paperasserie — dans lequel ils redoutent de se perdre à jamais.
Synonyms
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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