pavages
\pa.vaʒ\
The verdict
“pavages” is uncommon French (frequency #96,228 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,228
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pavage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pavages · pavages · French
pavages · rank #96,228 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,228
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Payan
Nearest frequency peer: Payan (+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 « pavages »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parthe
parthe
3,778 corpus weight
- participero…
participerons
3,777 corpus weight
- Patay
Patay
3,775 corpus weight
- pavages
pavages
3,773 corpus weight
- Payan
Payan
3,772 corpus weight
- PBM
PBM
3,771 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pavages » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pavages |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.vaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,228 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pavages » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pavages is uncommon French at frequency #96,228 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.vaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pavage.".
pavages doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pavages, spelled P-A-V-A-G-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pavage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pavages appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans beaucoup de contrées, où les grès sont rares, on utilise pour les pavages les cailloux roulés que l'on trouve en abondance dans le lit des fleuves ou sur les plages de la mer.
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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