palissade

\pa.li.sad\

/\pa.li.sad\/ noun

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The verdict

“palissade” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,439. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#39,439
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Barrière faite de pieux, ou de planches, fichés en terre.

Corpus desk

Index FR-palissade · palissade · French

palissade · rank #39,439 · 11 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #39,439
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH palet

Nearest frequency peer: palet (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « palissade »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « palissade » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

palissade vs polissage
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for palissade
PropertyValue
Headwordpalissade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.li.sad\
Letters9
Frequency rank#39,439
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « palissade »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.palissadese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « palet » (#39,438), « panthères » (#39,440), « palazzo » (#39,437). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « palissade » est au #39,439. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around palissade (IPA \pa.li.sad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,439 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for palissade, with forms such as "aplissade", "pailssade", and "palisade". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "polissage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is palissade, spelled P-A-L-I-S-S-A-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Barrière faite de pieux, ou de planches, fichés en terre.
  2. 2
    Fortification faite d’une ligne de pieux.
  3. 3
    Mur de verdure formé par une rangée d’arbres ou d’arbustes taillés.
  4. 4
    Meuble représentant une barrière dans les armoiries. À rapprocher de barrière et haie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how palissade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ici aussi, on vivait de la récup, de la réparation d’appareils usagés, de la vente de métaux. Des coups de marteau s’élevaient derrière des palissades formées de frigos ou de congélateurs.
  2. Comme dans une éclaircie émerge d’une brume d’argent toujours cette même rue couverte d’une épaisse couche de neige très blanche, sans trace de pas ni de roues, où je marche le long d’une palissade plus haute que moi, faite de minces planchettes de bois au sommet taillé en pointe…

This word in other languages

palisade(English)Palisade(Deutsch)paliçada(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aplissade
  • pailssade
  • palisade
  • palisasde
  • palissadde
  • palissaed
  • palissdae
  • pallissade
  • palsisade
  • plaissade
  • ppalissade

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of palissade - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aplissade2pailssade2palisade1palisasde2palissadde1palissaed2palissdae2pallissade1
Edit distance from "palissade"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "palissade"?
"palissade" is spelled P-A-L-I-S-S-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.li.sad\.
What does "palissade" mean?
As a noun, "palissade" means: Barrière faite de pieux, ou de planches, fichés en terre.
What words are commonly confused with "palissade"?
"palissade" is commonly confused with "polissage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "palissade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "palissade" is \pa.li.sad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "palissade" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "palissade", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

panthères#39,440ouvrirait#39,434olympiens#39,430pierrette#39,456

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

palatine11 variantsnettoyeur11 variantsnagasaki11 variantspunitive11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list