palau
The verdict
“palau” is uncommon French (frequency #65,380 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,380
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Langue austronésienne parlée aux Palaos dont elle est une des langues officielles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palau · palau · French
palau · rank #65,380 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,380
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH palets
Nearest frequency peer: palets (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “palau”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- outrances
outrances
34,624 corpus weight
- ovin
ovin
34,623 corpus weight
- palau
palau
34,621 corpus weight
- palets
palets
34,620 corpus weight
- Paltrow
Paltrow
34,619 corpus weight
- pamphlétaire
pamphlétaire
34,618 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “palau” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “palau” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
palau is uncommon French at frequency #65,380 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Langue austronésienne parlée aux Palaos dont elle est une des langues officielles.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for palau, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is palau, spelled P-A-L-A-U.
Definition
- 1Langue austronésienne parlée aux Palaos dont elle est une des langues officielles.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "palau", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.