papetière
\pap.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“papetière” is uncommon French (frequency #73,419 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,419
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ouvrière de l’industrie papetière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papetiere · papetière · French
papetière · rank #73,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,419
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pardonnons
Nearest frequency peer: pardonnons (+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 « papetière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pala
pala
26,585 corpus weight
- pancrace
pancrace
26,584 corpus weight
- papetière
papetière
26,582 corpus weight
- pardonnons
pardonnons
26,581 corpus weight
- parodi
parodi
26,580 corpus weight
- parquer
parquer
26,579 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « papetière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papetière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pap.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « papetière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
papetière is uncommon French at frequency #73,419 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pap.tjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for papetière, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is papetière, spelled P-A-P-E-T-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Ouvrière de l’industrie papetière.
- 2Commerçante proposant des produits papetiers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how papetière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A l’occasion de cette réflexion, nous ne croyons pas trop déplaire au lecteur en lui donnant ici la liste des principales professions nommées par Restif et figurées par Binet, dans les Contemporaines du commun et dans les Contemporaines par gradation. Plusieurs de ces professions n’existent plus aujourd’hui. […] Papetière
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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