papillon
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,131
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
papillon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Insecte qui a quatre ailes couvertes de fines écailles colorées, c’est le stade imaginal du lépidoptère. Pronounced \pa.pi.jɔ̃\. It ranks #8,131 in French word frequency. Often confused with Peillon and pavillon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papillon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pi.jɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #8,131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for papillon is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.pi.jɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,131 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for papillon, with forms such as "appillon", "paipllon", and "papillno". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Peillon", "pavillon", "papillons", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 papillon, spelled P-A-P-I-L-L-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Insecte qui a quatre ailes couvertes de fines écailles colorées, c’est le stade imaginal du lépidoptère.
- 2Personne qui, se laissant tromper par des apparences brillantes, est près de tomber dans un piège.
- 3Esprit léger qui voltige d’objets en objets.
- 4Bagatelle, considération futile.
- 5Petit papier détachable à bande semi-adhésive ou simple papier collé à l’intérieur d’un livre, d’une revue, pour donner un avis au lecteur, indiquer un erratum, etc.
- 6Procès verbal de contravention que les agents de la circulation glissent sous les essuie-glaces.
- 7Volet orientable posé dans un conduit et permettant de réguler le débit d’un fluide.
- 8Écrou en forme de papillon pouvant être serré sans outil.
- 9Style de nage ventrale, où les bras et les jambes agissent symétriquement.
- 10Sorte de bec de gaz dont la flamme evoque les ailes d'un papillon.
- 11Meuble représentant l’animal du même nom dans les armoiries.
- 12Grande douve du foie des ruminants.
- 13Nœud papillon.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: appillon,paipllon,papillno,papillonn,papiloln,papilon,paplilon,pappillon,ppaillon,ppapillon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for papillon
Misspelling Variants of "papillon"
Frequency rank: #8,131 in French
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