pavoiser
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#84,147
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
pavoiser is aFrenchverb. It means: Garnir un bâtiment de ses pavois et pavillons. Pronounced \pa.vwa.ze\.
| 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) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pavoiser is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.vwa.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #84,147 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for pavoiser in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pavoiser, spelled P-A-V-O-I-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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
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Frequency rank: #84,147 in French
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