palette
/ˈpælɪt/noun
palette is spelled P-A-L-E-T-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is pallette: about 770 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Palette is a noun meaning “A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours”. The plural of palette is palettes.
How many letters and syllables are in palette?
| Letters | 7: P-A-L-E-T-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.5 times per million words; the 10,519th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, pallette, about 770 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell palette?
Palette is spelled P-A-L-E-T-T-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for palette in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is palette?
Palette appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce palette?
- UK /ˈpælɪt/
- US /ˈpælɪt/
- US /ˈpælət/
Palette has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-palette.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with palette
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: pallet (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: pallet.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with palette?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as palette from its last stressed vowel (/ælɪt/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: peltate.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of palette
- palettes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does palette mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
- 2
A set of colours available to be used (or mixed).
Use your mouse to select the colour you want to use from the circular colour palette.
- 3
The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.
- 4
The range of tones or tone colors in a given musical composition or performance.
- 5
A set of makeup including a variety of colors, often packaged together in a tray.
She removed an eyeshadow palette from her bag.
- 6
A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.
- 7
A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
- 8
A plate against which a person presses their chest to give force to a hand-operated drill.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Palette in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | palette |
| German | Farbpalette, Palette |
| Portuguese | paleta |
| Spanish | paleta , gama de colores |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does palette come from?
Borrowed from French palette. Doublet of pallet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).