papon
\paˈpɔn\
The verdict
“papon” is uncommon French (frequency #52,252 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,252
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À la manière d’un pape.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papon · papon · French
papon · rank #52,252 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,252
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pantois
Nearest frequency peer: pantois (-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 « papon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paieras
paieras
47,752 corpus weight
- pantois
pantois
47,750 corpus weight
- papon
papon
47,749 corpus weight
- parleras
parleras
47,748 corpus weight
- passiez
passiez
47,747 corpus weight
- patrouillent
patrouillent
47,746 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « papon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \paˈpɔn\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #52,252 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « papon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
papon is uncommon French at frequency #52,252 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \paˈpɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "À la manière d’un pape.".
Zero misspellings are on record for papon in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is papon, spelled P-A-P-O-N.
Definition
- 1À la manière d’un pape.
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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