papier timbré
\pa.pje tɛ̃.bʁe\
The verdict
“papier timbré” 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
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Papier marqué d’un timbre, dont on est obligé de se servir pour les écritures judiciaires et pour les actes publics ou privés, dans des cas déterminés par la loi.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papier timbré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pje tɛ̃.bʁe\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “papier timbré” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for papier timbré is 13 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.pje tɛ̃.bʁe\. 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: "Papier marqué d’un timbre, dont on est obligé de se servir pour les écritures judiciaires et pour les actes publics ou privés, dans des cas déterminés par la loi.".
No misspelling variants are generated for papier timbré 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 timbré, spelled P-A-P-I-E-R- -T-I-M-B-R-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Papier marqué d’un timbre, dont on est obligé de se servir pour les écritures judiciaires et pour les actes publics ou privés, dans des cas déterminés par la loi.
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Using “papier timbré”
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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-P-I-E-R- -T-I-M-B-R-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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