papous
\pa.pu\
The verdict
“papous” is uncommon French (frequency #62,509 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,509
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de papou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-papous · papous · French
papous · rank #62,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,509
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panels
Nearest frequency peer: panels (-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 « papous »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- palpables
palpables
37,495 corpus weight
- palpite
palpite
37,494 corpus weight
- panels
panels
37,493 corpus weight
- papous
papous
37,492 corpus weight
- paquetage
paquetage
37,491 corpus weight
- parlantes
parlantes
37,490 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « papous » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | papous |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.pu\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « papous » en français
Rare enough to double-check
papous is uncommon French at frequency #62,509 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pa.pu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de papou.".
Zero misspellings are on record for papous in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is papous, spelled P-A-P-O-U-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de papou.
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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