paso doble
The verdict
“paso doble” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Musique à deux temps.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paso doble |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.so dɔbl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paso doble” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for paso doble is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.so dɔbl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for paso doble in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our 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 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 paso doble, spelled P-A-S-O- -D-O-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Musique à deux temps.
- 2Danse de salon espagnole d’origine mexicaine qui se danse en couple.
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Using “paso doble”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-S-O- -D-O-B-L-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pa.so dɔbl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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