pavia
\pa.vja\
The verdict
“pavia” is uncommon French (frequency #85,110 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,110
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe pavier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pavia · pavia · French
pavia · rank #85,110 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,110
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pataud
Nearest frequency peer: pataud (-2 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 « pavia »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parachevé
parachevé
14,897 corpus weight
- parasitolog…
parasitologie
14,896 corpus weight
- passo
passo
14,894 corpus weight
- pataud
pataud
14,893 corpus weight
- pavia
pavia
14,891 corpus weight
- pectorale
pectorale
14,887 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pavia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pavia |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.vja\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,110 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pavia » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pavia is uncommon French at frequency #85,110 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.vja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe pavier.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pavia in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pavia, spelled P-A-V-I-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe pavier.
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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