paw
\pɔː\
The verdict
“paw” is uncommon French (frequency #61,017 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,017
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Patte, pied.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paw · paw · French
paw · rank #61,017 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,017
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pats
Nearest frequency peer: pats (-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 « paw »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- partirez
partirez
38,987 corpus weight
- parviendrez
parviendrez
38,986 corpus weight
- pats
pats
38,985 corpus weight
- paw
paw
38,984 corpus weight
- paysagers
paysagers
38,983 corpus weight
- penaud
penaud
38,982 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paw » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paw |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɔː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #61,017 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paw » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paw is uncommon French at frequency #61,017 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɔː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for paw, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is paw, spelled P-A-W.
Definition
- 1Patte, pied.
- 2Paluche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paw appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A paw is the soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot.
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.
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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