papier articulé
\pa.pje aʁ.ti.ky.le\
The verdict
“papier articulé” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petite feuille de papier, ou de plastique d’environ 20mm sur 30mm, enduit sur les deux faces d'un colorant hydrosoluble. Les dentiste le place entre les dents du haut et celle du bas puis demandent...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papier articulé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pje aʁ.ti.ky.le\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “papier articulé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for papier articulé is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.pje aʁ.ti.ky.le\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Petite feuille de papier, ou de plastique d’environ 20mm sur 30mm, enduit sur les deux faces d'un colorant hydrosoluble. Les dentiste le place entre les dents du haut et celle du bas puis demandent...".
No misspelling variants are generated for papier articulé in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is papier articulé, spelled P-A-P-I-E-R- -A-R-T-I-C-U-L-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petite feuille de papier, ou de plastique d’environ 20mm sur 30mm, enduit sur les deux faces d'un colorant hydrosoluble. Les dentiste le place entre les dents du haut et celle du bas puis demandent au patient de serrer les dents, le colorant teinte les dents aux points de contact, il sert donc à contrôler l’occlusion dentaire.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-P-I-E-R- -A-R-T-I-C-U-L-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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