papille
\pa.pij\
The verdict
“papille” is uncommon French (frequency #96,217 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,217
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Certaines petites saillies coniques formées, vers la surface de la peau ou des membranes muqueuses, par des ramifications nerveuses et vasculaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papille · papille · French
papille · rank #96,217 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,217
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panachage
Nearest frequency peer: panachage (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « papille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pads
pads
3,786 corpus weight
- panachage
panachage
3,785 corpus weight
- papille
papille
3,784 corpus weight
- parco
parco
3,782 corpus weight
- Parigi
Parigi
3,781 corpus weight
- pariétales
pariétales
3,780 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « papille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pij\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,217 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « papille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
papille is uncommon French at frequency #96,217 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.pij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
papille has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is papille, spelled P-A-P-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Certaines petites saillies coniques formées, vers la surface de la peau ou des membranes muqueuses, par des ramifications nerveuses et vasculaires.
- 2Petites éminences coniques que l’on observe sur divers organes des végétaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how papille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les papilles de la langue.
Les papilles des mamelles.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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