papier de Hollande
\pa.pje də ɔ.lɑ̃d\
The verdict
“papier de Hollande” 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
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sorte de papier vergé, de luxe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papier de Hollande |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pje də ɔ.lɑ̃d\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “papier de Hollande” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for papier de Hollande is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.pje də ɔ.lɑ̃d\. 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: "Sorte de papier vergé, de luxe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for papier de Hollande 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 de Hollande, spelled P-A-P-I-E-R- -D-E- -H-O-L-L-A-N-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de papier vergé, de luxe.
Synonyms
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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Using “papier de Hollande”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-P-I-E-R- -D-E- -H-O-L-L-A-N-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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