pyjama
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,882
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
pyjama is aFrenchnoun. It means: Costume d’intérieur fait le plus souvent d’une étoffe légère, qui se compose d’une veste non ajustée et d’un pantalon très ample, et qui se porte aussi comme vêtement de nuit. Pronounced \pi.ʒa.ma\. Often confused with pyjamas and panama.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pyjama |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.ʒa.ma\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #13,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pyjama is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.ʒa.ma\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,882 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for pyjama, with forms such as "pjyama", "ppyjama", and "pyajma". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "pyjamas", "panama", 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 pyjama, spelled P-Y-J-A-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Costume d’intérieur fait le plus souvent d’une étoffe légère, qui se compose d’une veste non ajustée et d’un pantalon très ample, et qui se porte aussi comme vêtement de nuit.
- 2Costume porté dans les années 1930 par certaines femmes dans les stations balnéaires.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pjyama,ppyjama,pyajma,pyjaam,pyjamma,pyjjama,pyjmaa,pyyjama,ypjama
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pyjama
Misspelling Variants of "pyjama"
Frequency rank: #13,882 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "pyjama"?
What does "pyjama" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "pyjama"?
How do you pronounce "pyjama"?
What language does "pyjama" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our French index: