Paley
\pa.lɛ\
The verdict
“Paley” is uncommon French (frequency #68,527 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,527
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paley · Paley · French
Paley · rank #68,527 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,527
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH ove
Nearest frequency peer: ove (-2 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 « Paley »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oulémas
oulémas
31,478 corpus weight
- outback
outback
31,477 corpus weight
- ove
ove
31,476 corpus weight
- Paley
Paley
31,474 corpus weight
- palu
palu
31,472 corpus weight
- panaméricai…
panaméricains
31,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Paley » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Paley |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pa.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #68,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Paley » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Paley is uncommon French at frequency #68,527 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pa.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.".
Paley has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Paley, spelled P-A-L-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département de Seine-et-Marne.
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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