papillotes
\pa.pi.jɔt\
The verdict
“papillotes” is uncommon French (frequency #84,141 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,141
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de papillote.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papillotes · papillotes · French
papillotes · rank #84,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,141
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH papesse
Nearest frequency peer: papesse (-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 « papillotes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- panam
panam
15,863 corpus weight
- papesse
papesse
15,861 corpus weight
- papillotes
papillotes
15,860 corpus weight
- parcourons
parcourons
15,859 corpus weight
- pardieu
pardieu
15,858 corpus weight
- parfais
parfais
15,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « papillotes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papillotes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.pi.jɔt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #84,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « papillotes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
papillotes is uncommon French at frequency #84,141 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.pi.jɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de papillote.".
papillotes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is papillotes, spelled P-A-P-I-L-L-O-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de papillote.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how papillotes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quant à moi à nouveau rendue libre de toute appréhension je me jetais avec précipitation sur le cornet dans lequel je décelais, une orange, un jeanbonhomme, un pain d’épices à l’effigie du grand saint, et plaisir suprême, quelques papillotes.
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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