pâteuse
\pa.tøz\
The verdict
“pâteuse” is uncommon French (frequency #70,138 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,138
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de pâteux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pateuse · pâteuse · French
pâteuse · rank #70,138 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,138
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pyrotechnie
Nearest frequency peer: pyrotechnie (-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 « pâteuse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- puppet
puppet
29,866 corpus weight
- pyrite
pyrite
29,865 corpus weight
- pyrotechnie
pyrotechnie
29,864 corpus weight
- pâteuse
pâteuse
29,863 corpus weight
- pélicans
pélicans
29,862 corpus weight
- pénitenciers
pénitenciers
29,861 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pâteuse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pâteuse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.tøz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pâteuse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pâteuse is uncommon French at frequency #70,138 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pa.tøz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de pâteux.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pâteuse, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pâteuse, spelled P-Â-T-E-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de pâteux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pâteuse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vladi avait fait tous les rades du périmètre — en pure perte —, avant de s’échouer sur la Bastaga soi-même, le corps et la tête pleins d’alcool, la bouche pâteuse et proférante.
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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