Pauly
\po.li\
The verdict
“Pauly” is uncommon French (frequency #66,207 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,207
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille présent dans le sud-ouest, le centre (Limousin) et l’Est (Alsace-Lorraine) de la France.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pauly · Pauly · French
Pauly · rank #66,207 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,207
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Patrik
Nearest frequency peer: Patrik (-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 « Pauly »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- partiras
partiras
33,797 corpus weight
- parées
parées
33,796 corpus weight
- Patrik
Patrik
33,795 corpus weight
- Pauly
Pauly
33,794 corpus weight
- PDM
PDM
33,793 corpus weight
- peacock
peacock
33,792 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pauly » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pauly |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \po.li\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #66,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pauly » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pauly is uncommon French at frequency #66,207 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \po.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Pauly in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 Pauly, spelled P-A-U-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille présent dans le sud-ouest, le centre (Limousin) et l’Est (Alsace-Lorraine) de la France.
- 2Nom de famille présent également en Allemagne, au Luxembourg ainsi qu’aux États-Unis.
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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