paysage

/\pe.i.zaʒ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,484

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

paysage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Étendue de territoire couverte par le regard. Pronounced \pe.i.zaʒ\. It ranks #3,484 in French word frequency. Often confused with paysan and paysans.

Key facts for paysage
PropertyValue
Headwordpaysage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pe.i.zaʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#3,484
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of paysage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for paysage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.i.zaʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,484 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for paysage, with forms such as "apysage", "pasyage", and "payasge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "paysan", "paysans", "présage", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 paysage, spelled P-A-Y-S-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Étendue de territoire couverte par le regard.
  2. 2
    Situation, domaine ; ensemble d’éléments ayant une cohérence entre eux.
  3. 3
    Figuration peinte ou dessinée où le sujet porte sur la nature (forêts, montagnes, champs, cascades, rivières…) et où les figures (humains, non-humains) et les constructions sont accessoires.
  4. 4
    Format normalisé de châssis et de toiles, en principe destiné à la peinture des paysages, et dont la largeur est intermédiaire entre celles des formats figure et de marine.
  5. 5
    Description d’un aspect de nature.
  6. 6
    Métaphore faisant allusion aux sentiments, au caractère d’une personne.
  7. 7
    Image horizontale, dont la largeur est supérieure à la hauteur. (comme opposée à portrait).

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: apysage,pasyage,payasge,paysaeg,paysagge,paysgae,payssage,payysage,ppaysage,pyasage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for paysage

Misspelling Variants of "paysage"

apysage7pasyage7payasge7paysaeg7paysagge8paysgae7payssage8payysage8
Misspelling Variants of "paysage"

Frequency rank: #3,484 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "paysage"?
"paysage" is spelled P-A-Y-S-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pe.i.zaʒ\.
What does "paysage" mean?
As a noun, "paysage" means: Étendue de territoire couverte par le regard.
What words are commonly confused with "paysage"?
"paysage" is commonly confused with "paysan", "paysans", "présage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "paysage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "paysage" is \pe.i.zaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "paysage" come from?
"paysage" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.