palis
\pa.li\
The verdict
“palis” is uncommon French (frequency #98,334 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,334
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Suite de petits pieux pointus par un bout, dont plusieurs, enfoncés en terre et rangés à côté les uns des autres, forment une clôture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palis · palis · French
palis · rank #98,334 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,334
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panard
Nearest frequency peer: panard (+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 « palis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oxo
oxo
1,670 corpus weight
- oxydée
oxydée
1,669 corpus weight
- palis
palis
1,667 corpus weight
- panard
panard
1,666 corpus weight
- Pannier
Pannier
1,665 corpus weight
- panzers
panzers
1,664 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « palis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.li\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « palis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
palis is uncommon French at frequency #98,334 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for palis, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is palis, spelled P-A-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Suite de petits pieux pointus par un bout, dont plusieurs, enfoncés en terre et rangés à côté les uns des autres, forment une clôture.
- 2Lieu entouré de ces pieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how palis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce Chalet, sans vaches ni laiterie, a pour toute clôture sur le chemin un palis dont les charniers ne se voient plus sous une haie luxuriante.
Par-dessus le palis, les voisins avaient jeté des plants de fleurs dont-ils ne voulaient plus.
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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