pastiches
\pas.tiʃ\
The verdict
“pastiches” is uncommon French (frequency #78,719 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,719
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pastiche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pastiches · pastiches · French
pastiches · rank #78,719 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,719
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passionnait
Nearest frequency peer: passionnait (-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 « pastiches »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parvenais
parvenais
21,285 corpus weight
- passai
passai
21,284 corpus weight
- passionnait
passionnait
21,283 corpus weight
- pastiches
pastiches
21,282 corpus weight
- patricienne
patricienne
21,281 corpus weight
- pazzi
pazzi
21,279 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pastiches » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pastiches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pas.tiʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,719 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pastiches » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pastiches is uncommon French at frequency #78,719 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pas.tiʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pastiche.".
pastiches has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pastiches, spelled P-A-S-T-I-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pastiche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pastiches appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est de cette « admiration » dont il voudra ce défaire en écrivant des pastiches après les années Ruskin, pour se détacher de l’influence de ses maîtres.
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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