pala
\pa.la\
The verdict
“pala” is uncommon French (frequency #73,416 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,416
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Raquette en bois permettant la pratique d'une des spécialités de la pelote basque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pala · pala · French
pala · rank #73,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,416
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pancrace
Nearest frequency peer: pancrace (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pala »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ouargla
Ouargla
26,590 corpus weight
- ouvris
ouvris
26,588 corpus weight
- pala
pala
26,585 corpus weight
- pancrace
pancrace
26,584 corpus weight
- papetière
papetière
26,582 corpus weight
- pardonnons
pardonnons
26,581 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pala » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pala |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.la\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #73,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pala » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pala is uncommon French at frequency #73,416 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.la\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for pala in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. The correct French form is pala, spelled P-A-L-A.
Definition
- 1Raquette en bois permettant la pratique d'une des spécialités de la pelote basque.
- 2Jeu de pelote basque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pala appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La pala est un sport de balle, avec une raquette en bois qui s'appelle une pala, et parfois les spectateurs font des paris…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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