Payerne
\pa.jɛʁn\
The verdict
“Payerne” is uncommon French (frequency #70,091 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,091
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune du canton de Vaud en Suisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-payerne · Payerne · French
Payerne · rank #70,091 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,091
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH payerez
Nearest frequency peer: payerez (-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 « Payerne »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- passereaux
passereaux
29,913 corpus weight
- pavillonnai…
pavillonnaires
29,912 corpus weight
- payerez
payerez
29,911 corpus weight
- Payerne
Payerne
29,910 corpus weight
- PCA
PCA
29,909 corpus weight
- pectoral
pectoral
29,908 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Payerne » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Payerne |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pa.jɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,091 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Payerne » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Payerne is uncommon French at frequency #70,091 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pa.jɛʁn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune du canton de Vaud en Suisse.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Payerne in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Payerne, spelled P-A-Y-E-R-N-E.
Definition
- 1Commune du canton de Vaud en Suisse.
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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