palice
\palɪtsɛ\
The verdict
“palice” is uncommon French (frequency #97,249 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,249
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masse, maillet, mailloche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palice · palice · French
palice · rank #97,249 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,249
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paki
Nearest frequency peer: paki (-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 « palice »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paik
paik
2,755 corpus weight
- paki
paki
2,753 corpus weight
- palice
palice
2,752 corpus weight
- palmiste
palmiste
2,751 corpus weight
- pampas
pampas
2,750 corpus weight
- Pamuk
Pamuk
2,749 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « palice » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \palɪtsɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « palice » en français
Rare enough to double-check
palice is uncommon French at frequency #97,249 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \palɪtsɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
palice has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is palice, spelled P-A-L-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Masse, maillet, mailloche.
- 2Spadice.
- 3Caboche, tronche, bouille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how palice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kůly zatloukal do země pomocí velké palice.
Květenstvím toulitky je palice s výrazným kožovitým toulcem různé barvy
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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