pavoiser
\pa.vwa.ze\
The verdict
“pavoiser” is uncommon French (frequency #84,147 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,147
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Garnir un bâtiment de ses pavois et pavillons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pavoiser · pavoiser · French
pavoiser · rank #84,147 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,147
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passade
Nearest frequency peer: passade (-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 « pavoiser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pardieu
pardieu
15,858 corpus weight
- parfais
parfais
15,857 corpus weight
- passade
passade
15,855 corpus weight
- pavoiser
pavoiser
15,854 corpus weight
- pawn
pawn
15,853 corpus weight
- peaufiné
peaufiné
15,852 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pavoiser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pavoiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.vwa.ze\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pavoiser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pavoiser is uncommon French at frequency #84,147 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.vwa.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
pavoiser has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pavoiser, spelled P-A-V-O-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Garnir un bâtiment de ses pavois et pavillons.
- 2Garnir de drapeaux les édifices publics, les maisons, à l’occasion d’une fête, d’une cérémonie.
- 3Décorer.
- 4Décorer ou apprêter de façon à montrer sa joie ou sa fierté.
- 5Hisser pavois, pavillons, drapeaux etc.
- 6Manifester une fierté ostentatoire ou de la joie à l’occasion d’une réussite. → voir plastronner, triompher
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pavoiser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’amiral fit pavoiser tous les vaisseaux de la flotte.
Tous les bâtiments qui étaient dans le port furent aussitôt pavoisés.
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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