palau
The verdict
“palau” is an uncommon French word, ranked #65,380 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #65,380
- frequency rank, French
- 5
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Langue austronésienne parlée aux Palaos dont elle est une des langues officielles.
| 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
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for palau is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #65,380 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Langue austronésienne parlée aux Palaos dont elle est une des langues officielles.".
No misspelling variants are generated for palau in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is palau, spelled P-A-L-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Langue austronésienne parlée aux Palaos dont elle est une des langues officielles.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #65,380 in French
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Using “palau”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-L-A-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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