papouille
\pa.puj\
The verdict
“papouille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attouchement pour faire rire, sourire, exciter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papouille · papouille · French
papouille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papouille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.puj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « papouille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
papouille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.puj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Attouchement pour faire rire, sourire, exciter.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for papouille, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is papouille, spelled P-A-P-O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Attouchement pour faire rire, sourire, exciter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how papouille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tu es une mignonne petite canaille ! dis-je au bébé en lui faisant une papouille, ce qui le fit gigoter, se pâmer.
Ils s’embrassent, se font des papouilles.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.