pause
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,730
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pause is aFrenchnoun. It means: Suspension ou interruption momentanée d’une action. Pronounced \poz\. It ranks #2,730 in French word frequency. Often confused with pue and pus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pause |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \poz\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #2,730 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pause is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \poz\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,730 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for pause, with forms such as "apuse", "pasue", and "paues". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pause, spelled P-A-U-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Suspension ou interruption momentanée d’une action.
- 2Temps de repos qui interrompt, généralement à intervalles réguliers, un exercice on une marche.
- 3Silence, intervalle de temps pendant lequel un ou plusieurs musiciens, ou même tous les concertants, demeurent sans chanter, sans jouer.
- 4Silence de la durée d’une mesure pleine.
- 5Fonction permettant d’interrompre la lecture d’un enregistrement audio ou vidéo pour le reprendre ultérieurement au point d’interruption.
- 6Fonction permettant d’interrompre le visionnage d’un programme de télévision diffusé en direct et de le reprendre ultérieurement au point d’interruption en différé.
Synonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apuse,pasue,paues,pausse,ppause,puase
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pause
Misspelling Variants of "pause"
Frequency rank: #2,730 in French
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