paver
\pa.ve\
The verdict
“paver” is uncommon French (frequency #71,776 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,776
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Couvrir le terrain, le sol d’un chemin, d’une rue, d’une cour, d’une écurie, d’une salle, etc., avec du grès, du marbre, de la brique, du bois, etc., pour le rendre plus solide et plus uni, pour pe...
Corpus desk
Index FR-paver · paver · French
paver · rank #71,776 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,776
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passenger
Nearest frequency peer: passenger (-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 « paver »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parodiant
parodiant
28,230 corpus weight
- Parsifal
Parsifal
28,229 corpus weight
- partibus
partibus
28,228 corpus weight
- paske
paske
28,227 corpus weight
- passenger
passenger
28,226 corpus weight
- paver
paver
28,225 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paver » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.ve\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #71,776 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paver » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paver is uncommon French at frequency #71,776 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for paver in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is paver, spelled P-A-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Couvrir le terrain, le sol d’un chemin, d’une rue, d’une cour, d’une écurie, d’une salle, etc., avec du grès, du marbre, de la brique, du bois, etc., pour le rendre plus solide et plus uni, pour permettre d’y marcher ou d’y faire passer des voitures plus commodément.
- 2Couvrir, protéger.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les principales artères de la ville sont pavées de bois ou macadamisées.
Paver une église de dalles, de pierre de liais.
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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