pavé
French, noun
pavé is spelled P-A-V-É (4 letters) and appears 5.5 times per million words in written French, the 10,464th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pavé is a French masculine noun meaning “cobblestone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of paver. Without its accent, pave is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bloc, généralement cubique et fait de pierre dure (basalte, granit, grès, porphyre…), spécialement taillé…”.
What does pavé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecobblestone
Sous les pavés, la plage !
- 2
masculinecobblestone street
- 3
masculineparallelepiped
- 4
masculinepavé (rectangular food)
- 5
informalmasculinethick, massive book; doorstop
- 6
informalmasculinescreed, ream, long text
verb
- 1
past participle of paver
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. 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. 2. L’ensemble des blocs de pierre qui couvrent une surface, une rue, une route ; la rue ou la chaussée elle-même. 3. La rue. 4. Synonyme de parallélépipède.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pavé
- pavés plural
- pavée feminine
- pavées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to pavé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pavé in French?
pavé appears 5.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).