palmas

\pal.ma\

/\pal.ma\/ verb

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The verdict

“palmas” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,520. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,520
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de palmer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-palmas · palmas · French

palmas · rank #36,520 · 9 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,520
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH Pagode

Nearest frequency peer: Pagode (-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 « palmas »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « palmas » 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).

palmas vs Palme
50% similar
palmas vs papas
67% similar
palmas vs palmer
67% similar

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

Key facts for palmas
PropertyValue
Headwordpalmas
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pal.ma\
Letters6
Frequency rank#36,520
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « palmas »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).palmasse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Pagode » (#36,519), « paramount » (#36,521), « Outremont » (#36,518). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « palmas » est au #36,520. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around palmas (IPA \pal.ma\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,520 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de palmer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for palmas, with forms such as "aplmas", "palams", and "pallmas". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Palme", "papas", "palmer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 palmas, spelled P-A-L-M-A-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de palmer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aplmas
  • palams
  • pallmas
  • palmass
  • palmmas
  • palmsa
  • pamlas
  • plamas
  • ppalmas

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of palmas - 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.

aplmas2palams2pallmas1palmass1palmmas1palmsa2pamlas2plamas2
Edit distance from "palmas"

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 "palmas"?
"palmas" is spelled P-A-L-M-A-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pal.ma\.
What does "palmas" mean?
As a verb, "palmas" means: Deuxième personne du singulier du passé simple de palmer.
What words are commonly confused with "palmas"?
"palmas" is commonly confused with "Palme", "papas", "palmer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "palmas"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "palmas" is \pal.ma\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "palmas" come from?
"palmas" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Pagode#36,519poulie#36,537presto#36,544menons#36,492

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

netteté9 variantsminutie9 variantsratent9 variantsLarsen9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list