pauillac
\po.jak\
The verdict
“pauillac” is uncommon French (frequency #65,398 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,398
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vin de Pauillac.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pauillac · pauillac · French
pauillac · rank #65,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,398
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patriarcales
Nearest frequency peer: patriarcales (-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 « pauillac »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- partiraient
partiraient
34,607 corpus weight
- partnership
partnership
34,606 corpus weight
- partridge
partridge
34,605 corpus weight
- patriarcales
patriarcales
34,604 corpus weight
- pauillac
pauillac
34,603 corpus weight
- Pavlov
Pavlov
34,602 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pauillac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pauillac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \po.jak\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #65,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pauillac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pauillac is uncommon French at frequency #65,398 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \po.jak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vin de Pauillac.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pauillac in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pauillac, spelled P-A-U-I-L-L-A-C.
Definition
- 1Vin de Pauillac.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pauillac appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est sans doute que le beaujolais nouveau pue trop la sueur d'une populace avinée de nostalgie du vin de soif, contrairement à la noble modernité de ces flacons de pauillac et de saint-émilion, qui n'en sont d'ailleurs plus, tant la poussière de chêne neuf saturant leurs tanins laisse croire qu'ils ont été élevés dans des cercueils.
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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