papote
\pa.pɔt\
The verdict
“papote” is uncommon French (frequency #58,816 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,816
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de papoter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papote · papote · French
papote · rank #58,816 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,816
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panafricaine
Nearest frequency peer: panafricaine (-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 « papote »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paid
paid
41,188 corpus weight
- panafricain
panafricain
41,187 corpus weight
- panafricaine
panafricaine
41,186 corpus weight
- papote
papote
41,185 corpus weight
- parfumer
parfumer
41,184 corpus weight
- parodiques
parodiques
41,183 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « papote » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.pɔt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #58,816 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « papote » en français
Rare enough to double-check
papote is uncommon French at frequency #58,816 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.pɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for papote, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 papote, spelled P-A-P-O-T-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de papoter.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de papoter.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de papoter.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de papoter.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de papoter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how papote appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ici, ça papote, ça ingurgite des litrons de café et ça résonne d’éclats de rire.
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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