paradox
\paʁaˈdɔks\
The verdict
“paradox” is uncommon French (frequency #54,141 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,141
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Paradoxal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paradox · paradox · French
paradox · rank #54,141 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,141
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH papaye
Nearest frequency peer: papaye (-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 « paradox »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Orangina
Orangina
45,863 corpus weight
- papaye
papaye
45,861 corpus weight
- paradox
paradox
45,860 corpus weight
- paraffine
paraffine
45,859 corpus weight
- parcourait
parcourait
45,858 corpus weight
- parolier
parolier
45,857 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paradox » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paradox |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \paʁaˈdɔks\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,141 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paradox » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paradox is uncommon French at frequency #54,141 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \paʁaˈdɔks\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Paradoxal.".
Zero misspellings are on record for paradox in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is paradox, spelled P-A-R-A-D-O-X.
Definition
- 1Paradoxal.
Synonyms
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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