pavlova
\pav.lɔ.va\
The verdict
“pavlova” is uncommon French (frequency #87,012 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,012
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dessert à base de meringue, croustillant à l’extérieur et moelleux à l’intérieur, et généralement nappée de crème fouettée ou de glace et recouverte de fruits.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pavlova · pavlova · French
pavlova · rank #87,012 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,012
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Patmos
Nearest frequency peer: Patmos (-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 « pavlova »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- patatras
patatras
12,992 corpus weight
- pataugeoire
pataugeoire
12,991 corpus weight
- Patmos
Patmos
12,990 corpus weight
- pavlova
pavlova
12,989 corpus weight
- peek
peek
12,988 corpus weight
- pensionné
pensionné
12,987 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pavlova » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pavlova |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pav.lɔ.va\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,012 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pavlova » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pavlova is uncommon French at frequency #87,012 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pav.lɔ.va\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dessert à base de meringue, croustillant à l’extérieur et moelleux à l’intérieur, et généralement nappée de crème fouettée ou de glace et recouverte de fruits.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pavlova, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pavlova, spelled P-A-V-L-O-V-A.
Definition
- 1Dessert à base de meringue, croustillant à l’extérieur et moelleux à l’intérieur, et généralement nappée de crème fouettée ou de glace et recouverte de fruits.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pavlova appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Juste avant de servir, déposez la pavlova sur un plat.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).