paseo
\pa.se.o\
The verdict
“paseo” is uncommon French (frequency #80,485 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,485
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Défilé mené par les alguazils, les matadors, les banderilleros, les picadors et l’arrastre, en ouverture d'une corrida ou novillada.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paseo · paseo · French
paseo · rank #80,485 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,485
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Parigot
Nearest frequency peer: Parigot (-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 « paseo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- palms
palms
19,518 corpus weight
- Parigot
Parigot
19,517 corpus weight
- paseo
paseo
19,516 corpus weight
- passavant
passavant
19,515 corpus weight
- patents
patents
19,514 corpus weight
- patentés
patentés
19,513 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paseo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paseo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.se.o\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,485 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paseo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paseo is uncommon French at frequency #80,485 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.se.o\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for paseo, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is paseo, spelled P-A-S-E-O.
Definition
- 1Défilé mené par les alguazils, les matadors, les banderilleros, les picadors et l’arrastre, en ouverture d'une corrida ou novillada.
- 2Promenade, boulevard, dans les pays de langue espagnole ou dans l'extrême sud de la France.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paseo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Felipe avait installé Rosario lui-même, à la meilleure place des arènes et lorsque le paseo commença, au son d'un paso-doble, le Gitan qui se tenait entre les deux autres matadors qui, ainsi que lui, combattraient deux toros, bomba le torse.
Le paseo Coló, bordé de sable et de palmiers, s’étire au long de la mer.
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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