paravents
\pa.ʁa.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“paravents” is uncommon French (frequency #66,198 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,198
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de paravent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paravents · paravents · French
paravents · rank #66,198 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,198
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pamplemousses
Nearest frequency peer: pamplemousses (-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 « paravents »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pamplemouss…
pamplemousses
33,804 corpus weight
- paravents
paravents
33,803 corpus weight
- parcellaires
parcellaires
33,802 corpus weight
- parcourez
parcourez
33,801 corpus weight
- parfume
parfume
33,800 corpus weight
- Paros
Paros
33,799 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paravents » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paravents |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #66,198 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paravents » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paravents is uncommon French at frequency #66,198 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁa.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de paravent.".
No misspelling variants are generated for paravents in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is paravents, spelled P-A-R-A-V-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de paravent.
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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