pavé
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,549
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pavé is aFrenchnoun. It means: Bloc, généralement cubique et fait de pierre dure (basalte, granit, grès, porphyre…), spécialement taillé pour confectionner une chaussée de route, de rue, ou d’un sol quelconque. Pronounced \pa.ve\. Often confused with PV and pe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pavé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ve\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #10,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pavé is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ve\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,549 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 10 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 pavé, with forms such as "apvé", "pave", and "pavvé". 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, "PV", "pe", "pré", 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 pavé, spelled P-A-V-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Bloc, généralement cubique et fait de pierre dure (basalte, granit, grès, porphyre…), spécialement taillé pour confectionner une chaussée de route, de rue, ou d’un sol quelconque.
- 2L’ensemble des blocs de pierre qui couvrent une surface, une rue, une route ; la rue ou la chaussée elle-même.
- 3La rue.
- 4Synonyme de parallélépipède.
- 5Gros morceau de viande ou de poisson.
- 6Pâtisserie (gâteau, pain d’épice, quatre-quarts…) en forme de bloc ou de barre.
- 7Fromage de chèvre en forme de cube ou de pyramide.
- 8Texte, écrits ou livre qui est trop long, trop lourd, maladroitement rédigé ce qui rend le tout ennuyeux et difficile à lire.
- 9Livre contenant de nombreuses pages.
- 10Annonce publicitaire insérée dans une page de journal de façon à ce qu’elle soit nettement visible.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apvé,pave,pavvé,paév,ppavé,pvaé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pavé
Misspelling Variants of "pavé"
Frequency rank: #10,549 in French
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Nearby French words
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