pavés

Name: pavés, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\pa.ve\

/\pa.ve\/ adj

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“pavés” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,754. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#14,754
frequency rank, French: 6,826
“P” headwords: 8
tracked misspellings: 20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de pavé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-paves · pavés · French

pavés · rank #14,754 · 8 variants · 20 confusables

FREQ-MID #14,754
LEN-MID 5 letters
VOW-2 2 vowels
CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
VAR-MID 8 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,826
PHOTO-FINISH passionnée

Nearest frequency peer: passionnée (-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.

panel

85,250
passionnée

85,248
pavés

85,247
peints

85,246
pendu

85,245
pinceau

85,244

What this shows « pavés » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pavés vs pes

40% similar

pavés vs pays

60% similar

pavés vs près

40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pavés
Property	Value
Headword	pavés
Language	French
Part of speech	Adjective
IPA	\pa.ve\
Letters	5
Frequency rank	#14,754
Misspellings tracked	8
Confusable pairs	20
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pavés »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).pavésse place ici:

#14,754

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « passionnée » (#14,753), « peints » (#14,755), « pendu » (#14,756). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pavés » est au #14,754. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around pavés (IPA \pa.ve\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #14,754 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de pavé.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pavés, with forms such as "apvés", "paves", and "pavsé". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pes", "pays", "près", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 pavés, spelled P-A-V-É-S.

Definition

1
Masculin pluriel de pavé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how pavés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

C’est un des secteurs pavés emblématiques de Paris-Roubaix qui vient de perdre 100m. L’organisateur de la course l’a remesurée, et elle ne mesure que 2 300 m, et non 2 400 m.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

apvés
paves
pavsé
pavvés
pavéss
paévs
ppavés
pvaés

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pavés - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "pavés"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pavés"?

"pavés" is spelled P-A-V-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.ve\.

What does "pavés" mean?

As an adjective, "pavés" means: Masculin pluriel de pavé.

What words are commonly confused with "pavés"?

"pavés" is commonly confused with "pes", "pays", "près". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "pavés"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pavés" is \pa.ve\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "pavés" come from?

"pavés" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pavés", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pendu#14,756 panel#14,751 ornée#14,750 Nolan#14,746

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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