papouilles
\pa.puj\
The verdict
“papouilles” is uncommon French (frequency #81,420 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,420
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de papouille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papouilles · papouilles · French
papouilles · rank #81,420 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,420
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH palindrome
Nearest frequency peer: palindrome (-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 « papouilles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- overall
overall
18,586 corpus weight
- paillassons
paillassons
18,584 corpus weight
- palindrome
palindrome
18,582 corpus weight
- papouilles
papouilles
18,581 corpus weight
- parage
parage
18,580 corpus weight
- Parisi
Parisi
18,578 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « papouilles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papouilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.puj\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « papouilles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
papouilles is uncommon French at frequency #81,420 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.puj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de papouille.".
No misspelling variants are generated for papouilles in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 papouilles, spelled P-A-P-O-U-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de papouille.
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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