Palestine
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,901
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
Palestine is aFrenchname. It means: Région de l’Asie occidentale située entre la mer Méditerranée à l’ouest, le Jourdain à l’est, la mer Morte au sud, et le Liban au nord. Pronounced \pa.lɛs.tin\. It ranks #5,901 in French word frequency. Often confused with Palestinien and palatine.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Palestine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \pa.lɛs.tin\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Palestine is 9 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.lɛs.tin\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,901 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for Palestine, with forms such as "aplestine", "paelstine", and "palesitne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Palestinien", "palatine", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Palestine, spelled P-A-L-E-S-T-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Région de l’Asie occidentale située entre la mer Méditerranée à l’ouest, le Jourdain à l’est, la mer Morte au sud, et le Liban au nord.
- 2Région de l’Asie occidentale située entre la mer Méditerranée à l’ouest, le désert de Syrie à l’est, la mer Morte au sud, et la Syrie et le Liban au nord, et arrosée par le Jourdain.
- 3Berceau du christianisme, destination des croisades.
- 4État souverain de jure dirigé par l’autorité palestinienne ou par Israël. Sa capitale proclamée est Jérusalem-Est, Ramallah étant la capitale de facto.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aplestine,paelstine,palesitne,palesstine,palestien,palestinne,palestnie,palesttine,paletsine,pallestine,palsetine,plaestine,ppalestine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Palestine
Misspelling Variants of "Palestine"
Frequency rank: #5,901 in French
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