papillote
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#94,101
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
papillote is aFrenchnoun. It means: Morceau de papier dont on enveloppe les cheveux que l’on met en boucles, pour les friser. Pronounced \pa.pi.jɔt\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papillote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pi.jɔt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #94,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for papillote is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.pi.jɔt\. Corpus data places it at rank #94,101 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for papillote 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 papillote, spelled P-A-P-I-L-L-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Morceau de papier dont on enveloppe les cheveux que l’on met en boucles, pour les friser.
- 2Mèche de cheveux frisée avec ce papier ou au fer.
- 3Mèche de cheveux allant de paire de chaque côté du visage, typiques des hommes juifs orthodoxes.
- 4Enveloppe faite d’une feuille de papier pour éviter la dessiccation des aliments lors de la cuisson.
- 5Ornement de papier façonné et dentelé dont on entoure le manche d'un gigot ou d'une côtelette.
- 6Emballage individuel d'un bonbon, d'un fruit, etc.
- 7Dragée enveloppée dans un morceau de papier.
- 8Cette friandise emballée avec une maxime et/ou un pétard.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #94,101 in French
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