pallet
/ˈpælɪt/noun, verb
pallet is spelled P-A-L-L-E-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “palette vs pallet” about 1,900 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, pallet means “A bed of loose straw” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pallet is pallets.
How many letters and syllables are in pallet?
| Letters | 6: P-A-L-L-E-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.3 times per million words; the 24,745th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
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 common is pallet?
Pallet appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 24,745th 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 pallet?
- UK /ˈpælɪt/
- US /ˈpælɪt/
- US /ˈpælət/
Pallet 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pallet.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with pallet
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: palette (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: palette.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with pallet?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as pallet from its last stressed vowel (/ælɪt/):
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 pallet
- pallets plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- palleting participle, present
- palleted participle, past
- palet
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pallet mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A bed of loose straw.
Near-synonym: strawbed (mattress sense)
- 2
Any makeshift bedding place.
Near-synonym: scratcher (slang)
- 3
A portable platform, usually designed to be easily moved by a forklift, on which goods can be stacked, for transport or storage.
- 4
A narrow vertical stripe, narrower than a pale. Diminutive of pale.
- 5
archaicArchaic form of palette.
- 6
A wooden implement, often oval or round, used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works.
- 7
A potter's wheel.
- 8
An instrument used to take up gold leaf from the pillow, and to apply it.
- 9
A tool for gilding the backs of books over the bands.
- 10
A board on which a newly moulded brick is conveyed to the hack.
- 11
A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.
- 12
One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.
- 13
rareA Parisian measure of blood let; a cup containing three ounces, formerly used by surgeons.
verb
- 1
To load or stack (goods) onto pallets.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pallet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | paillasse , palette |
| Portuguese | enxerga , palete |
| Spanish | jerga, jergón , palé, pallet, pálet, palet |
| German | Palette |
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 pallet come from?
From Middle English paillet, from Anglo-Norman paillete (“bundle of straw”), from Old French paille (“straw, chaff”), from Latin palea (“chaff”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).