pause

\poz\

/\poz\/ noun

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The verdict

“pause” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,730. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#2,730
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suspension ou interruption momentanée d’une action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pause · pause · French

pause · rank #2,730 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #2,730
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH partenaires

Nearest frequency peer: partenaires (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pause »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pause » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pause vs pue
60% similar
pause vs pus
60% similar
pause vs plus
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pause
PropertyValue
Headwordpause
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\poz\
Letters5
Frequency rank#2,730
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pause »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).pausese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « partenaires » (#2,729), « portent » (#2,731), « organiser » (#2,728). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pause » est au #2,730. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around pause (IPA \poz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,730 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for pause, with forms such as "apuse", "pasue", and "paues". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pue", "pus", "plus", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pause, spelled P-A-U-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Suspension ou interruption momentanée d’une action.
  2. 2
    Temps de repos qui interrompt, généralement à intervalles réguliers, un exercice on une marche.
  3. 3
    Silence, intervalle de temps pendant lequel un ou plusieurs musiciens, ou même tous les concertants, demeurent sans chanter, sans jouer.
  4. 4
    Silence de la durée d’une mesure pleine.
  5. 5
    Fonction permettant d’interrompre la lecture d’un enregistrement audio ou vidéo pour le reprendre ultérieurement au point d’interruption.
  6. 6
    Fonction permettant d’interrompre le visionnage d’un programme de télévision diffusé en direct et de le reprendre ultérieurement au point d’interruption en différé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pause appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Y a bien un gars qui est passé et qui a dû faire une pause pour poser son keuss au milieu, genre les bretelles lui sciaient les doigts !
  2. Faire une pause, de longues pauses.

Synonyms

halte

This word in other languages

pause(English)pausa(Español)Pause(Deutsch)pausa(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apuse
  • pasue
  • paues
  • pausse
  • ppause
  • puase

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pause - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

apuse2pasue2paues2pausse1ppause1puase2
Edit distance from "pause"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pause"?
"pause" is spelled P-A-U-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \poz\.
What does "pause" mean?
As a noun, "pause" means: Suspension ou interruption momentanée d’une action.
What words are commonly confused with "pause"?
"pause" is commonly confused with "pue", "pus", "plus". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pause"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pause" is \poz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pause" come from?
"pause" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pause", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

angle6 variantsauras6 variantsRock6 variantsmont6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list