pavaner
\pa.va.ne\
The verdict
“pavaner” is uncommon French (frequency #50,407 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,407
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Marcher d’une manière fière, superbe, comme un paon qui fait la roue. Se tenir droit et marcher royalement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pavaner · pavaner · French
pavaner · rank #50,407 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,407
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pauwels
Nearest frequency peer: Pauwels (-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 « pavaner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paramilitai…
paramilitaire
49,597 corpus weight
- Pauwels
Pauwels
49,595 corpus weight
- pavaner
pavaner
49,594 corpus weight
- paya
paya
49,593 corpus weight
- pec
pec
49,592 corpus weight
- penguin
penguin
49,591 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pavaner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pavaner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.va.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pavaner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pavaner is uncommon French at frequency #50,407 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.va.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for pavaner in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pavaner, spelled P-A-V-A-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Marcher d’une manière fière, superbe, comme un paon qui fait la roue. Se tenir droit et marcher royalement.
- 2Faire le fier.
- 3Montrer avec ostentation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pavaner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le général dont elle habite l’esprit est un vieux beau, qui se pavane volontiers en quête de fortune.
Voyons ! entre nous, quand on voit un Minard, une cruche dorée, aller complimenter le roi, se pavaner aux Tuileries ; un Popinot en train de devenir ministre… ; et vous, un homme rompu au travail administratif, qui a vu dix gouvernements, repiquant ses balsamines…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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