Pawel
The verdict
“Pawel” is uncommon French (frequency #87,930 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,930
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pawel · Pawel · French
Pawel · rank #87,930 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,930
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patère
Nearest frequency peer: patère (-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 « Pawel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parapharmac…
parapharmacie
12,075 corpus weight
- paroxystique
paroxystique
12,073 corpus weight
- patère
patère
12,072 corpus weight
- Pawel
Pawel
12,071 corpus weight
- penseriez
penseriez
12,069 corpus weight
- perçoive
perçoive
12,067 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pawel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pawel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,930 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pawel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pawel is uncommon French at frequency #87,930 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Pawel, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Pawel, spelled P-A-W-E-L.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pawel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Estimant qu’il aurait intérêt à réfléchir longuement sur ce problème, il tourna les talons pour réintégrer le chalet des Löwenberg mais, peu avant la maison, il se heurta à Pawel, le mécanicien.
À la 48ème minute de la rencontre, alors que Kielce menait 22-20, Pawel Kotwica s’est effondré en tribune de presse, victime d’un malaise cardiaque, ce qui a conduit à l’interruption de la partie durant une dizaine de minutes.
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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