papier de riz

/\pa.pje də ʁi\/ noun

The verdict

“papier de riz” 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
13
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Fine lame blanche légèrement translucide de moelle du tronc d’aralie à papier de Chine.

Key facts for papier de riz
PropertyValue
Headwordpapier de riz
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.pje də ʁi\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “papier de riz” sits in French frequency

papier de riz falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for papier de riz is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.pje də ʁi\. 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: "Fine lame blanche légèrement translucide de moelle du tronc d’aralie à papier de Chine.".

No misspelling variants are generated for papier de riz 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 riz, spelled P-A-P-I-E-R- -D-E- -R-I-Z, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fine lame blanche légèrement translucide de moelle du tronc d’aralie à papier de Chine.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "papier de riz"?
"papier de riz" is spelled P-A-P-I-E-R- -D-E- -R-I-Z. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.pje də ʁi\.
What does "papier de riz" mean?
As a noun, "papier de riz" means: Fine lame blanche légèrement translucide de moelle du tronc d’aralie à papier de Chine.
How do you pronounce "papier de riz"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "papier de riz" is \pa.pje də ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Using “papier de riz”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is P-A-P-I-E-R- -D-E- -R-I-Z - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \pa.pje də ʁi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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