pallas
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,466
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
19
similar word pairs
pallas is aFrenchnoun. It means: Tissu de velours, dont la trame et la chaîne sont en coton, mais dont le velouté est en poil de chèvre. Pronounced \pa.las\. Often confused with Paula and pulls.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pallas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.las\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pallas is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.las\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,466 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for pallas, with forms such as "apllas", "palals", and "palas". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "Paula", "pulls", "papas", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pallas, spelled P-A-L-L-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tissu de velours, dont la trame et la chaîne sont en coton, mais dont le velouté est en poil de chèvre.
- 2Dans l’argot des typographes, discours pompeux, boursouflé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apllas,palals,palas,pallass,pallsa,plalas,ppallas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pallas
Misspelling Variants of "pallas"
Frequency rank: #37,466 in French
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