pavement
\pav.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“pavement” is uncommon French (frequency #54,785 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,785
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de paver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pavement · pavement · French
pavement · rank #54,785 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,785
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patou
Nearest frequency peer: patou (-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 « pavement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parrainée
parrainée
45,219 corpus weight
- Parthénon
Parthénon
45,218 corpus weight
- patou
patou
45,217 corpus weight
- pavement
pavement
45,216 corpus weight
- peignent
peignent
45,214 corpus weight
- perpétrée
perpétrée
45,213 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pavement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pavement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pav.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,785 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pavement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pavement is uncommon French at frequency #54,785 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pav.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for pavement in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pavement, spelled P-A-V-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de paver.
- 2Matériaux qu’on emploie pour cet effet et, plus particulièrement, des ouvrages de luxe et de goût qui forment les pavages intérieurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pavement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le pavement des rues de Paris n’eut lieu que sous Philippe-Auguste.
La même année 1186, le roi lance un chantier encore plus décisif : le pavement des rues.
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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