palissandre
\pa.li.sɑ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“palissandre” is uncommon French (frequency #85,098 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,098
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom vernaculaire de divers arbres du genre Dalbergia.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palissandre · palissandre · French
palissandre · rank #85,098 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,098
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH palimpseste
Nearest frequency peer: palimpseste (-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 « palissandre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pachydermes
pachydermes
14,906 corpus weight
- pali
pali
14,905 corpus weight
- palimpseste
palimpseste
14,904 corpus weight
- palissandre
palissandre
14,903 corpus weight
- palliative
palliative
14,902 corpus weight
- panafricani…
panafricanisme
14,901 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « palissandre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palissandre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.li.sɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #85,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « palissandre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
palissandre is uncommon French at frequency #85,098 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.li.sɑ̃dʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for palissandre in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is palissandre, spelled P-A-L-I-S-S-A-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nom vernaculaire de divers arbres du genre Dalbergia.
- 2Bois violet, nuancé de jaune et de noir selon l’espèce de Dalbergia dont il provient.,
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how palissandre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On dénomme palissandre les arbres du genre Dalbergia (famille des Fabaceae) . Ceux-ci sont présents, en ce qui concerne notre région, dans les forêts denses sèches et font l'objet d'une intense exploitation.
Un perroquet jacassant à la cime d'un palissandre, un agouti apprivoisé qui folâtre près du carbet, un singe, au besoin un prisonnier si l'on en a un sous la main.
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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