pâquerette
\pɑ.kʁɛt\
The verdict
“pâquerette” is uncommon French (frequency #77,834 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,834
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante herbacée aux feuilles en rosette, aux capitules de fleurs terminaux et solitaires souvent jaunes et blancs, et dont les fruits sont des akènes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paquerette · pâquerette · French
pâquerette · rank #77,834 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,834
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH putting
Nearest frequency peer: putting (-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 « pâquerette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prêteront
prêteront
22,170 corpus weight
- punitif
punitif
22,169 corpus weight
- putting
putting
22,168 corpus weight
- pâquerette
pâquerette
22,167 corpus weight
- pèserait
pèserait
22,166 corpus weight
- pépiniériste
pépiniériste
22,165 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pâquerette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pâquerette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ.kʁɛt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #77,834 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pâquerette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pâquerette is uncommon French at frequency #77,834 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɑ.kʁɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
pâquerette doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pâquerette, spelled P-Â-Q-U-E-R-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Plante herbacée aux feuilles en rosette, aux capitules de fleurs terminaux et solitaires souvent jaunes et blancs, et dont les fruits sont des akènes.
- 2Synonyme de pâquerette vivace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pâquerette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La pâquerette, elle, est une fleur facile à la différence de d’autres qui, comme la rose ou la glycine, préfèrent les jardins soigneusement entretenus.
Un oratoire (msalla), simple mur en maçonnerie blanchi à la chaux, avait été construit à la hâte sur une colline voisine, toute blanche de pâquerettes.
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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