Pâques
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,359
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Pâques is aFrenchname. It means: Fête que les chrétiens solennisent tous les ans en mémoire de la résurrection de Jésus-Christ, et qu’ils célèbrent le premier dimanche qui suit la pleine lune de l’équinoxe de printemps. Pronounced \pak\. It ranks #7,359 in French word frequency. Often confused with pues and pique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pâques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \pak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #7,359 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Pâques is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pak\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,359 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for Pâques, with forms such as "paques", "ppâques", and "pqâues". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pues", "pique", "payés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Pâques, spelled P-Â-Q-U-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fête que les chrétiens solennisent tous les ans en mémoire de la résurrection de Jésus-Christ, et qu’ils célèbrent le premier dimanche qui suit la pleine lune de l’équinoxe de printemps.
- 2Dimanche auquel tombe la fête de Pâques.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: paques,ppâques,pqâues,pâqeus,pâqques,pâquess,pâquse,pâuqes,âpques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Pâques
Misspelling Variants of "Pâques"
Frequency rank: #7,359 in French
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