palabres
\pa.labʁ\
The verdict
“palabres” is uncommon French (frequency #56,160 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,160
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de palabre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palabres · palabres · French
palabres · rank #56,160 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,160
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paillard
Nearest frequency peer: paillard (-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 « palabres »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ovoïde
ovoïde
43,844 corpus weight
- padawan
padawan
43,843 corpus weight
- paillard
paillard
43,842 corpus weight
- palabres
palabres
43,841 corpus weight
- pantoute
pantoute
43,840 corpus weight
- paranormaux
paranormaux
43,839 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « palabres » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palabres |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.labʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « palabres » en français
Rare enough to double-check
palabres is uncommon French at frequency #56,160 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.labʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de palabre.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for palabres in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is palabres, spelled P-A-L-A-B-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de palabre.
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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