pali
\pa.li\
The verdict
“pali” is uncommon French (frequency #85,096 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,096
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la langue sacrée du bouddhisme theravāda.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pali · pali · French
pali · rank #85,096 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,096
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pachydermes
Nearest frequency peer: pachydermes (-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 « pali »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ovalie
ovalie
14,908 corpus weight
- Pabst
Pabst
14,907 corpus weight
- pachydermes
pachydermes
14,906 corpus weight
- pali
pali
14,905 corpus weight
- palimpseste
palimpseste
14,904 corpus weight
- palissandre
palissandre
14,903 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pali » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pali |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.li\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pali » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pali is uncommon French at frequency #85,096 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pa.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à la langue sacrée du bouddhisme theravāda.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pali in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pali, spelled P-A-L-I.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la langue sacrée du bouddhisme theravāda.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pali appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La langue palie.
Un idiome pali.
Synonyms
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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