palefrenier
\pal.fʁə.nje\
The verdict
“palefrenier” is uncommon French (frequency #76,867 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,867
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Employé d’une structure équestre chargé de l’entretien des écuries et des soins quotidiens aux chevaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palefrenier · palefrenier · French
palefrenier · rank #76,867 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,867
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH palabre
Nearest frequency peer: palabre (-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 « palefrenier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- outillé
outillé
23,138 corpus weight
- ovationné
ovationné
23,137 corpus weight
- palabre
palabre
23,135 corpus weight
- palefrenier
palefrenier
23,134 corpus weight
- palud
palud
23,133 corpus weight
- paranormale
paranormale
23,130 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « palefrenier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palefrenier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pal.fʁə.nje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,867 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « palefrenier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
palefrenier is uncommon French at frequency #76,867 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pal.fʁə.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Employé d’une structure équestre chargé de l’entretien des écuries et des soins quotidiens aux chevaux.".
Zero misspellings are on record for palefrenier in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is palefrenier, spelled P-A-L-E-F-R-E-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Employé d’une structure équestre chargé de l’entretien des écuries et des soins quotidiens aux chevaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how palefrenier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le coursier fut conduit dans la lice par deux palefreniers richement vêtus.
Les écuries du roi et l'hôtel des gardes-du-corps devinrent pour eux un nouveau sujet de désordre; ils s’y précipitèrent en foule et jetèrent l’effroi parmi les valets d'écurie et les palefreniers.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).