papier de riz
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papier de riz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pje də ʁi\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “papier de riz” sits in French frequency
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
- 1Fine lame blanche légèrement translucide de moelle du tronc d’aralie à papier de Chine.
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Using “papier de riz”
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- 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.
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