palet
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#39,438
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
palet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pierre plate et ronde. Pronounced \pa.lɛ\. Often confused with pat and pet.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #39,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for palet is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.lɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,438 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for palet, with forms such as "aplet", "paelt", and "palett". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pat", "pet", "part", and more, 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 palet, spelled P-A-L-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pierre plate et ronde.
- 2Morceau de métal de la même forme, avec lequel on joue en le jetant le plus près qu’on peut du but qui a été marqué.
- 3Disque dur et épais en caoutchouc qui sert au jeu de hockey sur glace.
- 4Marelle.
- 5Palet de Barligny, petit fromage (100 g), au lait de vache, en forme de palet.
- 6Diverse préparations ayant la forme d’un palet.
- 7Pieu en bois que les pêcheurs enfoncent sur le rivage pour y fixer leurs filets.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aplet,paelt,palett,pallet,ppalet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for palet
Misspelling Variants of "palet"
Frequency rank: #39,438 in French
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