palmés
\pal.me\
The verdict
“palmés” is uncommon French (frequency #90,000 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,000
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de palmé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-palmes · palmés · French
palmés · rank #90,000 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,000
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH palmeraies
Nearest frequency peer: palmeraies (-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 « palmés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- oxydatif
oxydatif
10,005 corpus weight
- palmeraies
palmeraies
10,002 corpus weight
- palmés
palmés
10,001 corpus weight
- palourde
palourde
10,000 corpus weight
- pancréatiqu…
pancréatiques
9,998 corpus weight
- Panik
Panik
9,997 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « palmés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | palmés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pal.me\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #90,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « palmés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
palmés is uncommon French at frequency #90,000 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pal.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de palmé.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for palmés in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is palmés, spelled P-A-L-M-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de palmé.
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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