pavant
\pa.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“pavant” is uncommon French (frequency #90,013 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,013
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe paver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pavant · pavant · French
pavant · rank #90,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,013
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paterne
Nearest frequency peer: paterne (-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 « pavant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Parisian
Parisian
9,991 corpus weight
- partageraie…
partageraient
9,990 corpus weight
- paterne
paterne
9,989 corpus weight
- pavant
pavant
9,988 corpus weight
- pavots
pavots
9,987 corpus weight
- pedes
pedes
9,986 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pavant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pavant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pavant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pavant is uncommon French at frequency #90,013 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe paver.".
pavant has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pavant, spelled P-A-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe paver.
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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