pardons
\paʁ.dɔ̃\
The verdict
“pardons” is uncommon French (frequency #61,766 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,766
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pardon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pardons · pardons · French
pardons · rank #61,766 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,766
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parkour
Nearest frequency peer: parkour (+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 « pardons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Palois
Palois
38,239 corpus weight
- paléontolog…
paléontologues
38,238 corpus weight
- pardons
pardons
38,235 corpus weight
- parkour
parkour
38,234 corpus weight
- parurent
parurent
38,232 corpus weight
- passi
passi
38,231 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pardons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pardons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paʁ.dɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pardons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pardons is uncommon French at frequency #61,766 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \paʁ.dɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pardon.".
pardons doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pardons, spelled P-A-R-D-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pardon.
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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