papou
\pa.pu\
The verdict
“papou” is uncommon French (frequency #63,225 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,225
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Papous, habitants autochtones de la Papouasie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papou · papou · French
papou · rank #63,225 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,225
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paramétrage
Nearest frequency peer: paramétrage (+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 « papou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ovations
ovations
36,780 corpus weight
- Palissy
Palissy
36,778 corpus weight
- papou
papou
36,776 corpus weight
- paramétrage
paramétrage
36,775 corpus weight
- paranos
paranos
36,774 corpus weight
- partagerai
partagerai
36,771 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « papou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.pu\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « papou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
papou is uncommon French at frequency #63,225 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pa.pu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for papou, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is papou, spelled P-A-P-O-U.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Papous, habitants autochtones de la Papouasie.
- 2Qualifie les familles de langues parlées en Océanie ne faisant pas partie des langues austronésiennes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how papou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les langues papoues.
This word in other languages
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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