pavard
The verdict
“pavard” is uncommon French (frequency #60,264 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,264
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bouclier d’arbalétrier, pavois à l’abri duquel on combattait et qui servait pour s’approcher des remparts d’une ville assiégée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pavard · pavard · French
pavard · rank #60,264 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,264
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Paulina
Nearest frequency peer: Paulina (-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 « pavard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- patata
patata
39,740 corpus weight
- Paulina
Paulina
39,738 corpus weight
- pavard
pavard
39,737 corpus weight
- penserez
penserez
39,736 corpus weight
- Pentium
Pentium
39,735 corpus weight
- perfidie
perfidie
39,734 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pavard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pavard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #60,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pavard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pavard is uncommon French at frequency #60,264 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bouclier d’arbalétrier, pavois à l’abri duquel on combattait et qui servait pour s’approcher des remparts d’une ville assiégée.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pavard, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pavard, spelled P-A-V-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Bouclier d’arbalétrier, pavois à l’abri duquel on combattait et qui servait pour s’approcher des remparts d’une ville assiégée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pavard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et doit, le dit Ayton, livrer et tenir en chacune d’icelles hors tous suffisans et bien armez de plates, de bacinez, de coliers auenent gorgeres de feret de pavars.
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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