paz
\ˈpɑːs\
The verdict
“paz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #27,176) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #27,176
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paz · paz · French
paz · rank #27,176 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,176
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Payet
Nearest frequency peer: Payet (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « paz »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- patronyme
patronyme
72,828 corpus weight
- Pavel
Pavel
72,827 corpus weight
- Payet
Payet
72,826 corpus weight
- paz
paz
72,825 corpus weight
- pelage
pelage
72,824 corpus weight
- pepper
pepper
72,823 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « paz » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɑːs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #27,176 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « paz »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for paz is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PS", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈpɑːs\. Frequency #27,176 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No generated misspelling entries exist for paz in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PS", "PQ", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is paz, spelled P-A-Z.
Definition
- 1Toux.
- 2Pet.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).